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title: "'Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. ' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. ' Who acts: Sot en. 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 18

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"'Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. '

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**Who acts:** Sot en · **What happens:** tuck, say · **To what, where:** sezee, 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 (Sot en), 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:pg2306:15:18
# text = "'Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sot en | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Sot en *not said here* | 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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