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title: "Bimeby Brer Fox stick his head in de do', en holler out: — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bimeby Brer Fox stick his head in de do', en holler out: 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 of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 27

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"Bimeby Brer Fox stick his head in de do', en holler out:

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**What happens:** stick out · **To what, where:** Bimeby, de

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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: 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:pg2306:13:27
# text = "Bimeby Brer Fox stick his head in de do', en holler out:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	',	',	PART	POS	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick out** *in a quote* | present |  | Bimeby |  | de |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in de=Destination |

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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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