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title: "Sho' nuff, Brer Fox lif' up his foot en holler wahoo! en Brer Rabbi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sho' nuff, Brer Fox lif' up his foot en holler wahoo! en Brer Rabbit he tear out de house like de dogs wuz atter 'im. Who acts: Brer, de dogs. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 59

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"Sho' nuff, Brer Fox lif' up his foot en holler wahoo! en Brer Rabbit he tear out de house like de dogs wuz atter 'im.

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**Who acts:** Brer, de dogs · **What happens:** tear out, wuz · **To what, where:** de house, im

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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, de dogs), 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:pg2306:14:59
# text = "Sho' nuff, Brer Fox lif' up his foot en holler wahoo! en Brer Rabbit he tear out de house like de dogs wuz atter 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sho	Sho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lif	lif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tear	tear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	'	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer  Sho en | de house |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location house=Theme |
| 2 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | de dogs | atter's im |  |  |  |  | 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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