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title: "Don't you pester longer Brer Rabbit, honey, en don't you fret 'bout… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Don't you pester longer Brer Rabbit, honey, en don't you fret 'bout 'im. Who acts: you, Brer. 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 50

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"Don't you pester longer Brer Rabbit, honey, en don't you fret 'bout 'im.

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**Who acts:** you, Brer · **What happens:** not pester, not fret · **To what, where:** bout

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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, Brer), 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:pg2306:11:50
# text = "Don't you pester longer Brer Rabbit, honey, en don't you fret 'bout 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pester	pester	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fret	fret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pester** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **fret** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Brer and en | bout |  |  |  | im *obl:unmarked* | 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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