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title: Den he look in, en dar lay Brer Fox stretch out on de bed des es big… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he look in, en dar lay Brer Fox stretch out on de bed des es big ez life. Who acts: W'en, en dar, 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 46

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Den he look in, en dar lay Brer Fox stretch out on de bed des es big ez life.

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**Who acts:** W'en, en dar, Brer · **What happens:** look in, lie, stretch out · **To what, where:** Den, de des es

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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 (W'en, en dar, Brer), 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:pg2306:14:46
# text = Den he look in, en dar lay Brer Fox stretch out on de bed des es big ez life.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look in** | present | W'en | Den |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | past | en dar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stretch out** | present | Brer |  |  | de des es  big ez life |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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