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title: "Den Mr. Buzzard up'n tell Brer Fox how 'twuz, en he 'low'd, Mr. Buz… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Mr. Buzzard up'n tell Brer Fox how 'twuz, en he 'low'd, Mr. Buzzard did, dat Brer Rabbit wuz de lowdownest w'atsizname w'at he ever run up wid. Who acts: Den, Buzzard. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 38

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"Den Mr. Buzzard up'n tell Brer Fox how 'twuz, en he 'low'd, Mr. Buzzard did, dat Brer Rabbit wuz de lowdownest w'atsizname w'at he ever run up wid.

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**Who acts:** Den, Buzzard · **What happens:** tell, do, dat, run up · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, Brer wuz, wid · **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, Buzzard), 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:pg2306:11:38
# text = "Den Mr. Buzzard up'n tell Brer Fox how 'twuz, en he 'low'd, Mr. Buzzard did, dat Brer Rabbit wuz de lowdownest w'atsizname w'at he ever run up wid.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	twuz	twuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	lowdownest	lowdown	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
29	w'atsizname	w'atsizname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Den |  | Brer Fox |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Buzzard  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dat** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den *not said here* | Brer wuz and lowdownest w'atsizname w'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Buzzard | wid |  |  | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wid=Trajectory |

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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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