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title: En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox gallopin' thoo de woods wid his axe on his shoulder. Who acts: nudder, thoo de woods. 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 tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 4

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En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox gallopin' thoo de woods wid his axe on his shoulder.

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**Who acts:** nudder, thoo de woods · **What happens:** not wait, come, wi · **To what, where:** Fox gallopin, axe, shoulder

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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 (nudder, thoo de woods), 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:pg2306:11:4
# text = En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox gallopin' thoo de woods wid his axe on his shoulder.
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	kase	kase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	yer	y	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gallopin	gallopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | nudder and kase | Fox gallopin |  |  |  | bimeby *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallopin=Theme |
| 3 | **wi** | past | thoo de woods | sorter's axe |  | sorter's shoulder |  |  | 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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