--- title: "'Well, den, I'll settle yo' hash right now,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Well, den, I'll settle yo' hash right now,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en wid dat he grab Mr. Buzzard by de tail, he did, en make fer ter dash 'im 'gin de groun', but des 'bout dat time de tail fedders come out, en Mr. Buzzard sail off like one er dese yer berloons; en ez he riz, he holler back: Who act --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/47/) [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/) / 47 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 47 "'Well, den, I'll settle yo' hash right now,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en wid dat he grab Mr. Buzzard by de tail, he did, en make fer ter dash 'im 'gin de groun', but des 'bout dat time de tail fedders come out, en Mr. Buzzard sail off like one er dese yer berloons; en ez he riz, he holler back: **Who acts:** den, Buzzard, en, des, tail fedders · **What happens:** settle, say, grab, do, make, time · **To what, where:** yo hash, Brer Fox, Buzzard, bout dat time · **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 (den, Buzzard, en, des), 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:pg2306:11:47 # text = "'Well, den, I'll settle yo' hash right now,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en wid dat he grab Mr. Buzzard by de tail, he did, en make fer ter dash 'im 'gin de groun', but des 'bout dat time de tail fedders come out, en Mr. Buzzard sail off like one er dese yer berloons; en ez he riz, he holler back: 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ _ 10 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 hash hash NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 right right ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 28 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:desc _ _ 29 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 compound _ _ 32 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 amod _ _ 40 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 dash dash NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 gin gin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 ccomp _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 compound _ _ 47 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 but but CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 parataxis _ _ 55 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 54 flat:foreign _ _ 56 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 fedders fedder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nsubj _ _ 58 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 acl:relcl _ _ 59 out out ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 61 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ _ 62 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod:desc _ _ 63 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ _ 65 off off ADP RP _ 64 compound:prt _ _ 66 like like ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 69 nummod _ _ 68 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 dese dese NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nmod _ _ 70 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 berloons berloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ; ; PUNCT : _ 76 punct _ _ 73 en en X FW Foreign=Yes 76 nsubj _ _ 74 ez ez X FW _ 76 compound _ _ 75 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 76 nsubj _ _ 76 riz riz NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 78 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 79 nsubj _ _ 79 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 appos _ _ 80 back back ADV RB _ 79 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 81 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** *in a quote* | future | den | yo hash | | | now | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hash=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer Fox and sezee and wid dat | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | | 3 | **grab** *in a quote* | present | Den | Buzzard Mr. | | | | by de tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Theme | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Buzzard | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | en | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **time** *in a quote* | | des | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | tail fedders | bout dat time and en Buzzard sail like one er dese and yer's berloons *not said here* | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | | 8 | **riz** *in a quote* | | en | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **holler back** *speech: other* *in a quote* | | Buzzard | | | | | | tree rules | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/48/) - ↑ back to [VIII. 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