--- title: "Las', one day Brer Fox come 'long all rig out, en ax Brer Rabbit fe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Las', one day Brer Fox come 'long all rig out, en ax Brer Rabbit fer ter go huntin' wid 'im, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter feel lazy, en he tell Brer Fox dat he got some udder fish fer ter fry. Who acts: Las, fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Ra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/) / 4 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 4 "Las', one day Brer Fox come 'long all rig out, en ax Brer Rabbit fer ter go huntin' wid 'im, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter feel lazy, en he tell Brer Fox dat he got some udder fish fer ter fry. **Who acts:** Las, fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** come, rig out, go, sorter, feel, tell · **To what, where:** en ax, Brer Fox dat, udder fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Las, fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:18:4 # text = "Las', one day Brer Fox come 'long all rig out, en ax Brer Rabbit fer ter go huntin' wid 'im, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter feel lazy, en he tell Brer Fox dat he got some udder fish fer ter fry. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Las Las PROPN NNP Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 7 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 rig rig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 17 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 18 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 huntin huntin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 im im PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 35 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 parataxis _ _ 40 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 47 det _ _ 46 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 50 amod _ _ 49 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 fry fry NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Las | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rig out** *in a quote* | present | Las *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | en ax | | | | im *obl:unmarked* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location huntin=Theme | | 4 | **sorter** *in a quote* | | Rabbit | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Rabbit | | | | | lazy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Rabbit | Brer Fox dat | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | some udder fish and fer ter fry | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/5/) - ↑ back to [XV. 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