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title: Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game don… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game done wo' ter a frazzle, but Brer Wolf, he talk mighty 'swadin'. Who acts: Brer Fox dun, dun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 16

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Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game done wo' ter a frazzle, but Brer Wolf, he talk mighty 'swadin'.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox dun, dun · **What happens:** know, do, talk · **To what, where:** sorter game, mighty swadin

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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 Fox dun, dun), 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:pg2306:14:16
# text = Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game done wo' ter a frazzle, but Brer Wolf, he talk mighty 'swadin'.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frazzle	frazzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	swadin	swadin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Brer Fox dun |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | present | dun |  |  |  |  | dat sorter game | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | sorter game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | future | dun | mighty swadin |  |  |  | ter a frazzle | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent swadin=Patient |

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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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