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title: "'I'll do de foolin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'ef you'll do de gamin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'll do de foolin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'ef you'll do de gamin',' sezee. Who acts: Den, you. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 20

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"'I'll do de foolin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'ef you'll do de gamin',' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Den, you · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** de foolin, Brer, ef · **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 (Den, you), 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:pg2306:14:20
# text = "'I'll do de foolin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'ef you'll do de gamin',' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	foolin	foolin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	gamin	gamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Den | de foolin |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foolin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | you | ef |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sezee=Eventuality |

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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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