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title: "Sho nuff, Brer Fox tu'n loose de tail, en Brer Tarrypin, he went do… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sho nuff, Brer Fox tu'n loose de tail, en Brer Tarrypin, he went down ter de bottom--kerblunkity-blink!" Who acts: Sho nuff. 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 cl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 37

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"Sho nuff, Brer Fox tu'n loose de tail, en Brer Tarrypin, he went down ter de bottom--kerblunkity-blink!"

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**Who acts:** Sho nuff · **What happens:** go down · **To what, where:** ter

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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 (Sho nuff), 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:pg2306:15:37
# text = "Sho nuff, Brer Fox tu'n loose de tail, en Brer Tarrypin, he went down ter de bottom--kerblunkity-blink!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sho	Sho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	kerblunkity	kerblunkity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	blink	blink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** *in a quote* | past | Sho nuff and Fox tu'n and en | ter |  |  |  | de kerblunkity blink; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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