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title: "'How you speck Brer Rabbit gittin' on, Brer Buzzard?' sez Brer Fox,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'How you speck Brer Rabbit gittin' on, Brer Buzzard?' sez Brer Fox, sezee. 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 5

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"'How you speck Brer Rabbit gittin' on, Brer Buzzard?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speck, say · **To what, where:** Rabbit gittin, Brer Fox · **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 (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:pg2306:11:5
# text = "'How you speck Brer Rabbit gittin' on, Brer Buzzard?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	csubj	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | you | Rabbit gittin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |

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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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