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title: "'Brer Fox died dis mornin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Brer Fox died dis mornin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee. Who acts: Brer. 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 34

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"'Brer Fox died dis mornin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** die, say, sezee · **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), 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:pg2306:697`): 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:pg2306:14:34
# text = "'Brer Fox died dis mornin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	dis	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	mornin	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
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	nsubj	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sezee	sezee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | past | Brer |  |  |  | morning |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sezee** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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