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title: Brer Fox, he sorter lick his chops, but he went on en lef' Brer Rabb… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox, he sorter lick his chops, but he went on en lef' Brer Rabbit layin' in de road. Who acts: Fox, Brer Fox. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 19

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Brer Fox, he sorter lick his chops, but he went on en lef' Brer Rabbit layin' in de road.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Brer Fox · **What happens:** sorter, lick, go, chop · **To what, where:** chops, en lef

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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 (Fox, Brer Fox), 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:pg2306:18:19
# text = Brer Fox, he sorter lick his chops, but he went on en lef' Brer Rabbit layin' in de road.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chops	chop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sorter** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | infinitive | Brer Fox and sorter | Fox's chops |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chop=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | Fox |  |  | en lef |  | in de road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lef=Location |
| 4 | **chop** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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