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title: Oh, I'm des a fishin', Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, I'm des a fishin', Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ' Who acts: I. 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 29

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Oh, I'm des a fishin', Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** des, say · **To what, where:** fishin Brer Fox, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:19:29
# text = Oh, I'm des a fishin', Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	des	des	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fishin	fishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PART	POS	_	7	dep	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **des** | present · progressive | I | fishin Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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