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title: "'Likewise hit bu'n yo' tail off,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Likewise hit bu'n yo' tail off,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. Who acts: hit, Brer Fox. 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 20

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"'Likewise hit bu'n yo' tail off,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

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**Who acts:** hit, Brer Fox · **What happens:** burn off, say, sezee · **To what, where:** tail · **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 (hit, Brer Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:738`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:15:20
# text = "'Likewise hit bu'n yo' tail off,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	hit	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bu'n	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	yo	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn off** *in a quote* | present | hit *= it* | yo's tail |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sezee** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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