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title: No longer'n day 'fo' yistiddy,' sezee, 'Brer Fox pass me on de road,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: No longer'n day 'fo' yistiddy,' sezee, 'Brer Fox pass me on de road, en whatter you reckin he say?' sezee: Who acts: Brer Fox, you, Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 20

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No longer'n day 'fo' yistiddy,' sezee, 'Brer Fox pass me on de road, en whatter you reckin he say?' sezee:

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, you, Fox · **What happens:** pass, reckin, say · **To what, where:** me, road, whatter reckin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Fox, you, Fox), 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:pg2306:13:20
# text = No longer'n day 'fo' yistiddy,' sezee, 'Brer Fox pass me on de road, en whatter you reckin he say?' sezee:
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	longer'n	longer'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	yistiddy	yistiddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	whatter	whatt	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reckin	reckin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
29	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | infinitive | Brer Fox | me |  | road and en |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme on road=Destination |
| 2 | **reckin** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Fox | whatter reckin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reckin=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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