--- title: "Well, Mr. Buzzard, he feel mighty lonesome, he did, but he done pro… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, Mr. Buzzard, he feel mighty lonesome, he did, but he done prommust Brer Fox dat he'd stay, en he 'termin' fer ter sorter hang 'roun' en jine in de joke. Who acts: Mr., fer ter sorter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/) / 3 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 3 "Well, Mr. Buzzard, he feel mighty lonesome, he did, but he done prommust Brer Fox dat he'd stay, en he 'termin' fer ter sorter hang 'roun' en jine in de joke. **Who acts:** Mr., fer ter sorter · **What happens:** feel, do, stay, termin, hang · **To what, where:** mighty lonesome, prommust Brer Fox dat, en, roun en jine · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., fer ter sorter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:11:3 # text = "Well, Mr. Buzzard, he feel mighty lonesome, he did, but he done prommust Brer Fox dat he'd stay, en he 'termin' fer ter sorter hang 'roun' en jine in de joke. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lonesome lonesome NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 prommust prommust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 termin termin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 32 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 en en X FW Foreign=Yes 39 compound _ _ 39 jine jine NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Mr. | mighty lonesome | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=Theme | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Mr. | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Mr. | prommust Brer Fox dat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | would | Mr. | en and termin | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **termin** *in a quote* | | Mr. | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive | fer ter sorter | roun en jine in de joke | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termin=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/4/) - ↑ back to [VIII. 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