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title: "'I'm nigher ter you, Brer Buzzard,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dan I'll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'm nigher ter you, Brer Buzzard,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dan I'll be ter Brer Rabbit dis day,' sezee. ' Who acts: Den, dan. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 33

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"'I'm nigher ter you, Brer Buzzard,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dan I'll be ter Brer Rabbit dis day,' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** Den, dan · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, ter Brer dis day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, dan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:11:33
# text = "'I'm nigher ter you, Brer Buzzard,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dan I'll be ter Brer Rabbit dis day,' sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	nigher	nigh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
24	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Den |  |  |  |  | ter you; Brer *obl*; nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Den *not said here* | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  | sezee *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | dan | ter Brer dis day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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