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title: Brer Fox, he come up, en dar lay Brer Rabbit, periently col' en stiff. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox, he come up, en dar lay Brer Rabbit, periently col' en stiff. Who acts: Brer Fox, en dar. 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 21

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Brer Fox, he come up, en dar lay Brer Rabbit, periently col' en stiff.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, en dar · **What happens:** come up, lie · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit

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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, en dar), 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:pg2306:18:21
# text = Brer Fox, he come up, en dar lay Brer Rabbit, periently col' en stiff.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	periently	periently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | present | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | en dar | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  | col and en *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rabbit=Theme |

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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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