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title: Brer Fox feel mighty sorry, he did, but he say he bleeve he try his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox feel mighty sorry, he did, but he say he bleeve he try his han' enny how, en off he put. Who acts: Brer Fox, 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 pragma
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 5

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Brer Fox feel mighty sorry, he did, but he say he bleeve he try his han' enny how, en off he put.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox · **What happens:** feel, do, say, bleeve, try, put · **To what, where:** han, en · **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 Fox, 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:pg2306:18:5
# text = Brer Fox feel mighty sorry, he did, but he say he bleeve he try his han' enny how, en off he put.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	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	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bleeve** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | infinitive | Fox | Fox's han |  |  |  | enny *obl* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality |
| 6 | **put** | past | Fox | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent en=Goal |

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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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