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title: But Brer Wolf, he got mighty long head, en he sorter broach 'bout Br… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But Brer Wolf, he got mighty long head, en he sorter broach 'bout Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns on, kaze de way dat Brer Rabbit 'ceive Brer Fox done got ter be de talk er de naberhood. Who acts: Wolf, Brer Rabbit, way. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. W
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 12

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But Brer Wolf, he got mighty long head, en he sorter broach 'bout Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns on, kaze de way dat Brer Rabbit 'ceive Brer Fox done got ter be de talk er de naberhood.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, Brer Rabbit, way · **What happens:** get, broach on, ceive, be · **To what, where:** long head, way, talk

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Brer Rabbit, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:675`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:14:12
# text = But Brer Wolf, he got mighty long head, en he sorter broach 'bout Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns on, kaze de way dat Brer Rabbit 'ceive Brer Fox done got ter be de talk er de naberhood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	dislocated	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	sorter	sorter	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	broach	broach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bout	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	kyar'ns	kyar'n	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	kaze	kaze	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
24	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
26	dat	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
30	ceive	ceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	done	do	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux	_	_
34	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
35	ter	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
37	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	_
39	er	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Wolf | long head |  |  |  | Brer Wolf *dislocated* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 2 | **broach on** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  | about Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns; sorter *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ceive** | past | Brer Rabbit | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | participle · do-support | the way |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the way *not said here* | the talk |  |  |  | of the naberhood | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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