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title: "Brer Fox feel so bad, en he git so mad 'bout Brer Rabbit, dat he du… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox feel so bad, en he git so mad 'bout Brer Rabbit, dat he dunner w'at ter do, en he look mighty down-hearted. Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, dat. 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 pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 9

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"Brer Fox feel so bad, en he git so mad 'bout Brer Rabbit, dat he dunner w'at ter do, en he look mighty down-hearted.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox, dat · **What happens:** feel, git, do, en, look · **To what, where:** ter

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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 Fox, Fox, dat), 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:pg2306:14:9
# text = "Brer Fox feel so bad, en he git so mad 'bout Brer Rabbit, dat he dunner w'at ter do, en he look mighty down-hearted.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	appos	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
21	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **git** *in a quote* |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | dat |  |  |  |  | bout Brer Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **en** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Fox *not said here* | ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mighty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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