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title: Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarrypin off little ways b'low de spring-'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarrypin off little ways b'low de spring-'ouse, en souze him under de water. 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 30

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Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarrypin off little ways b'low de spring-'ouse, en souze him under de water.

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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: 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:pg2306:15:30
# text = Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarrypin off little ways b'low de spring-'ouse, en souze him under de water.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drag	drag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	b'low	b'low	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	souze	souze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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