--- title: "'Good-by, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, Fer dis is de way de worl'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Good-by, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, Fer dis is de way de worl' goes; Some goes up en some goes down, You'll git ter de bottom all safe en soun'.' Who acts: Brer Fox, Fer dis, de worl, Some. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fishe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/) / 41 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 41 "'Good-by, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, Fer dis is de way de worl' goes; Some goes up en some goes down, You'll git ter de bottom all safe en soun'.' **Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fer dis, de worl, Some, You · **What happens:** take, be, go, go up, go down, ter · **To what, where:** yo cloze, de way, en 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 (Brer Fox, Fer dis, de worl, Some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:19:41 # text = "'Good-by, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, Fer dis is de way de worl' goes; Some goes up en some goes down, You'll git ter de bottom all safe en soun'.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 by by ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 keer keer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 cloze cloze NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 Fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 20 compound _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 21 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 22 compound _ _ 22 worl worl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 27 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ _ 31 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 38 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 39 advmod _ _ 39 bottom bottom ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 41 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 soun soun NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Fox | yo cloze | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloze=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Fer dis | de way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | de worl | de way *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 4 | **go up** *in a quote* | present | Some | en | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **go down** *in a quote* | present | some | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **ter** *in a quote* | future | You | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/42/) - ↑ back to [XVI. 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