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title: Brer Fox see Brer Rabbit come to de well en stop, en den he see 'im… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox see Brer Rabbit come to de well en stop, en den he see 'im jump in de bucket, en den, lo en behol's, he see 'im go down outer sight. Who acts: Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fish
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 15

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Brer Fox see Brer Rabbit come to de well en stop, en den he see 'im jump in de bucket, en den, lo en behol's, he see 'im go down outer sight.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit · **What happens:** see, come, de, go down · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, en stop, im jump, de bucket, outer sight

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. 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, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit), 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:pg2306:19:15
# text = Brer Fox see Brer Rabbit come to de well en stop, en den he see 'im jump in de bucket, en den, lo en behol's, he see 'im go down outer sight.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	behol	behol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	im	im	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Brer Fox | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **de** | to-infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* | en stop and en den |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | Rabbit | im jump and en den and en behol |  | de bucket |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jump=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go down** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | outer sight |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient sight=Extent |

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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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