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title: "'Nobody 'roun' fer ter look atter Brer Fox--not even Brer Tukkey Bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Nobody 'roun' fer ter look atter Brer Fox--not even Brer Tukkey Buzzard ain't come ter de funer'l,' sezee. ' Who acts: Nobody, 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 cl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 48

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"'Nobody 'roun' fer ter look atter Brer Fox--not even Brer Tukkey Buzzard ain't come ter de funer'l,' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** Nobody, Brer · **What happens:** look, not come · **To what, where:** atter Brer Fox, ter de funer'l

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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 (Nobody, 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:pg2306:14:48
# text = "'Nobody 'roun' fer ter look atter Brer Fox--not even Brer Tukkey Buzzard ain't come ter de funer'l,' sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	atter	att	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	ter	ter	X	FW	_	24	compound	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	funer'l	funer'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Nobody | atter Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present | Brer | ter de funer'l and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location funer'l=Theme |

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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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