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title: "ATTER Brer Fox hear 'bout how Brer Rabbit done Brer Wolf," said Unc… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "ATTER Brer Fox hear 'bout how Brer Rabbit done Brer Wolf," said Uncle Remus, scratching his head with the point of his awl, 'he 'low, he did, dat he better not be so brash, en he sorter let Brer Rabbit 'lone. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Ha
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 1

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"ATTER Brer Fox hear 'bout how Brer Rabbit done Brer Wolf," said Uncle Remus, scratching his head with the point of his awl, 'he 'low, he did, dat he better not be so brash, en he sorter let Brer Rabbit 'lone.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** say, scratch, do, dat, not be, let · **To what, where:** head, brash, en, awl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. 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.

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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:pg2306:18:1
# text = "ATTER Brer Fox hear 'bout how Brer Rabbit done Brer Wolf," said Uncle Remus, scratching his head with the point of his awl, 'he 'low, he did, dat he better not be so brash, en he sorter let Brer Rabbit 'lone.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ATTER	ATTER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hear	hear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bout	bout	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	done	done	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	list	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
17	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	awl	awl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	brash	brash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	'	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | gerund | Brer *not said here* | Remus's head |  |  |  | with the point of Remus's awl | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with point=Instrument |
| 3 | **do** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dat** | infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | infinitive |  | brash and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | past | Brer | en *not said here* |  |  |  | lone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 7 | **point** |  |  | Remus's awl |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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