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title: "Sho nuff, Brer Fox look over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sho nuff, Brer Fox look over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox lookin' at 'im outer de water. Who acts: Sho nuff, nuff. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 29

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"Sho nuff, Brer Fox look over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox lookin' at 'im outer de water.

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**Who acts:** Sho nuff, nuff · **What happens:** look, do · **To what, where:** outer de water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. 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, 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:pg2306:17:29
# text = "Sho nuff, Brer Fox look over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox lookin' at 'im outer de water.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sho	Sho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	n'er	n'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	nsubj	_	_
25	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Sho nuff |  |  |  |  | over de bank | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over bank=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | nuff |  |  | outer de water |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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