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title: "'You gimme good start, Brer Fox,' sezee, en Brer Fox sot dar en wat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You gimme good start, Brer Fox,' sezee, en Brer Fox sot dar en watch 'im fly outer sight." Who acts: You. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 48

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"'You gimme good start, Brer Fox,' sezee, en Brer Fox sot dar en watch 'im fly outer sight."

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** gimme · **To what, where:** good start

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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 (You), 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:pg2306:11:48
# text = "'You gimme good start, Brer Fox,' sezee, en Brer Fox sot dar en watch 'im fly outer sight."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gimme	gimme	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gimme** *in a quote* | present | You | good start and Brer Fox |  |  |  | sezee and en and Brer Fox sot *obl* | 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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