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title: Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. 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 35

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Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**What happens:** come down, haul, say · **To what, where:** Come en he'p, 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: 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:pg2306:19:35
# text = Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	compound	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	he'p	he'p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	haul	haul	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **haul** | present |  | Come en he'p |  |  |  | Brer Fox *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 3 | **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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