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title: "Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar Brer Tarrypin lit, but he don't see no sine er Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Brer. 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 pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 35

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"Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar Brer Tarrypin lit, but he don't see no sine er Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** look, feel, de back, light, not see · **To what, where:** en, sine

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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), 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:pg2306:13:35
# text = "Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar Brer Tarrypin lit, but he don't see no sine er Brer Rabbit.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	er	er	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	sine	sine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer | roun's en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **de back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | er Brer's head | tree rules |
| 4 | **light** *in a quote* | past | Brer  whar |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Brer | no sine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sine=Stimulus |

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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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