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title: "'Den I'm des in time fer ter wake im up, sez Brer Fox, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Den I'm des in time fer ter wake im up, sez Brer Fox, sezee. Who acts: Den, des. 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 9

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"'Den I'm des in time fer ter wake im up, sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Den, des · **What happens:** be, wake, im up, say · **To what, where:** des, time fer ter, 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 (Den, des), 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:pg2306:11:9
# text = "'Den I'm des in time fer ter wake im up, sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Den | des |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wake** *in a quote* | present | des *not said here* |  |  | time fer ter |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **im up** *in a quote* | participle | des *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *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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