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title: Brer Fox he come 'long, he did, en see Brer Rabbit layin' dar. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox he come 'long, he did, en see Brer Rabbit layin' dar. Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, en. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 11

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Brer Fox he come 'long, he did, en see Brer Rabbit layin' dar.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox, en · **What happens:** come, do, see · **To what, where:** Brer

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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 Fox, Fox, en), 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:pg2306:18:11
# text = Brer Fox he come 'long, he did, en see Brer Rabbit layin' dar.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | en | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=Stimulus |

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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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