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title: He sot off dar in de bushes en study en study, but he don't make no… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He sot off dar in de bushes en study en study, but he don't make no head ner tails ter dis kinder bizness. Who acts: Fox. 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 c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 17

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He sot off dar in de bushes en study en study, but he don't make no head ner tails ter dis kinder bizness.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** not make · **To what, where:** ner tails

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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 (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:pg2306:19:17
# text = He sot off dar in de bushes en study en study, but he don't make no head ner tails ter dis kinder bizness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
4	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Fox | no ner tails |  |  |  | ter dis and kinder bizness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Product |

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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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