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title: Brer Fox done been fool so much dat he look like he termin' fer ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox done been fool so much dat he look like he termin' fer ter have Brer Tarrypin haslett. Who acts: Brer Fox, Brer, fer ter. 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 eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 28

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Brer Fox done been fool so much dat he look like he termin' fer ter have Brer Tarrypin haslett.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Brer, fer ter · **What happens:** do, be, look, have · **To what, where:** done fool, Brer

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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, Brer, fer ter), 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:pg2306:15:28
# text = Brer Fox done been fool so much dat he look like he termin' fer ter have Brer Tarrypin haslett.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	termin	termin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	haslett	haslett	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle | Brer Fox | done fool |  |  |  | dat *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | fer ter | Brer |  |  |  | like termin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Patient |

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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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