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title: I went down ter Brer Fox house little bit 'go, en dar I foun' 'im st… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I went down ter Brer Fox house little bit 'go, en dar I foun' 'im stiff,' sezee. Who acts: I. 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 38

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I went down ter Brer Fox house little bit 'go, en dar I foun' 'im stiff,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go down, foun · **To what, where:** little bit

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:14:38
# text = I went down ter Brer Fox house little bit 'go, en dar I foun' 'im stiff,' sezee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	foun	foun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | I |  |  |  |  | ter Fox house; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **foun** |  | I | little bit |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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