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title: "Brer Fox crope up little nigher, he did, en lissen, but he don't ye… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox crope up little nigher, he did, en lissen, but he don't year no fuss, en he keep on gittin' nigher, en yit he don't year nuthin'. Who acts: crope. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 21

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"Brer Fox crope up little nigher, he did, en lissen, but he don't year no fuss, en he keep on gittin' nigher, en yit he don't year nuthin'.

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**Who acts:** crope · **What happens:** do, not year, keep · **To what, where:** en lissen, en, year nuthin

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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 (crope), 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:pg2306:19:21
# text = "Brer Fox crope up little nigher, he did, en lissen, but he don't year no fuss, en he keep on gittin' nigher, en yit he don't year nuthin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	nigher	nigh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lissen	lissen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	nigher	nigh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | crope | en lissen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lissen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **year** *in a quote* | present · do-support | crope |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | crope | en *not said here* |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | crope | year nuthin |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yit=Eventuality |

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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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