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title: "'Dar's a bunch er his fur on dat black-be'y bush,' sez Brer Fox, se… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Dar's a bunch er his fur on dat black-be'y bush,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en dat ain't de way he come,' sezee. Who acts: Dar, dat ai. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 37

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"'Dar's a bunch er his fur on dat black-be'y bush,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en dat ain't de way he come,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Dar, dat ai · **What happens:** be, say, not come · **To what, where:** bunch, Brer Fox, sezee · **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 (Dar, dat ai), 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:pg2306:11:37
# text = "'Dar's a bunch er his fur on dat black-be'y bush,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en dat ain't de way he come,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	er	er	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	be'y	be'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dar | a bunch |  |  |  | er dar's fur on dat be'y bush | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | dat ai | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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