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title: Brer Wolf mighty smart, but nex' time you hear fum 'im, honey, he'll… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Wolf mighty smart, but nex' time you hear fum 'im, honey, he'll be in trouble. Who acts: you, 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 60

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Brer Wolf mighty smart, but nex' time you hear fum 'im, honey, he'll be in trouble.

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**Who acts:** you, Brer · **What happens:** hear, be · **To what, where:** fum, trouble

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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 (you, 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:pg2306:14:60
# text = Brer Wolf mighty smart, but nex' time you hear fum 'im, honey, he'll be in trouble.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | you | fum and im and honey |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fum=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | future | Brer |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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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