--- title: "'Look up en see,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en w'en Brer Fox look up,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Look up en see,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en w'en Brer Fox look up, Brer Rabbit spit his eyes full er terbacker joose, he did, en Brer Fox, he make a break fer de branch, en Brer Rabbit he come down en tole de ladies good-by. Who acts: en, Brer Rabbit, Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/) / 49 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 49 "'Look up en see,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en w'en Brer Fox look up, Brer Rabbit spit his eyes full er terbacker joose, he did, en Brer Fox, he make a break fer de branch, en Brer Rabbit he come down en tole de ladies good-by. **Who acts:** en, Brer Rabbit, Fox · **What happens:** look up, see, say, spit, do, make · **To what, where:** en, Brer, eyes, en Brer Fox, break fer, tole de ladies · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (en, Brer Rabbit, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:13:49 # text = "'Look up en see,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en w'en Brer Fox look up, Brer Rabbit spit his eyes full er terbacker joose, he did, en Brer Fox, he make a break fer de branch, en Brer Rabbit he come down en tole de ladies good-by. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 spit spit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 28 er er X FW _ 30 compound _ _ 29 terbacker terbacker NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 joose joose NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 de de ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 48 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 52 down down ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 53 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 tole tole NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 55 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl _ _ 57 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 59 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 by by ADP IN _ 57 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | en | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | en *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 4 | **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **spit** *in a quote* | present | Brer Rabbit | Fox's eyes | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Fox | en Brer Fox | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Fox | a break fer and en and Brer Rabbit | | | | de branch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Product | | 8 | **come down** *in a quote* | present | Fox | tole de ladies | | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/50/) - ↑ back to [X. 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