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title: "'Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is,' sez Brer Tarrypin, se… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. Who acts: Brer Fox, w'at trubble. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 13

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"'Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, w'at trubble · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** w'at trubble, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. 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, w'at trubble), 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:pg2306:15:13
# text = "'Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Lor	Lor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	',	',	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	appos	_	_
9	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trubble	trubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Lor's Brer Fox | w'at trubble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | w'at trubble | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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