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title: Brer Fox wuz de mos' 'stonish Fox dat you ever laid eyes on. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox wuz de mos' 'stonish Fox dat you ever laid eyes on. Who acts: wuz mos, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 16

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Brer Fox wuz de mos' 'stonish Fox dat you ever laid eyes on.

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**Who acts:** wuz mos, you · **What happens:** stonish, dat, lay · **To what, where:** Fox, eyes

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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 (wuz mos, you), 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:pg2306:19:16
# text = Brer Fox wuz de mos' 'stonish Fox dat you ever laid eyes on.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	mos	mo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	stonish	stonish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stonish** | infinitive | wuz mos *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dat** | past | wuz mos |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | you | eyes |  |  | ever |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Result |

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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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