--- title: Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not fer ter drown 'im, but Brer Fox a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not fer ter drown 'im, but Brer Fox ain't makin' no prommus, en den he beg Brer Fox fer ter bu'n' 'im, kase he done useter fier, but Brer Fox don't say nuthin'. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/) / 29 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 29 Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not fer ter drown 'im, but Brer Fox ain't makin' no prommus, en den he beg Brer Fox fer ter bu'n' 'im, kase he done useter fier, but Brer Fox don't say nuthin'. **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** drown, beg, bu'n, do, not say · **To what, where:** en den, useter fier, nuthin · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:15:29 # text = Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not fer ter drown 'im, but Brer Fox ain't makin' no prommus, en den he beg Brer Fox fer ter bu'n' 'im, kase he done useter fier, but Brer Fox don't say nuthin'. 1 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 beg beg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 makin makin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 prommus prommus NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bu'n bu'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 im im NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 kase kase NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 useter uset ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 amod _ _ 41 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 45 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ _ 46 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 47 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 49 nuthin nuthin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | present | Brer Den beg | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Brer | en den *not said here* | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent den=Recipient | | 3 | **bu'n** | | Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | Brer | useter fier | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fier=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Brer | nuthin | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuthin=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/30/) - ↑ back to [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/)