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title: Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bim… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Wolf he up'n say dat he done got plan fix fer ter trap Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Brer dey sorter, dey, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 13

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Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Wolf he up'n say dat he done got plan fix fer ter trap Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Brer dey sorter, dey, dat · **What happens:** palaver, do, say, get · **To what, where:** Den Fox en, twel bimeby, dat, plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brer dey sorter, dey, dat), 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:pg2306:14:13
# text = Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Wolf he up'n say dat he done got plan fix fer ter trap Brer Rabbit.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	palavered	palaver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
22	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **palaver** | past | Brer dey sorter | Den Fox en |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | dey | twel bimeby |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | dey | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | dey | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | participle | dat *not said here* | plan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=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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