--- title: "'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fear'd she's done gone by now,' en dat sorter make Brer Fox en Brer Possum feel in mo'nin' wid Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Present'y, oblije, Fox, dat sorter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/25/) [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/) / [XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/) / 25 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 25 "'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fear'd she's done gone by now,' en dat sorter make Brer Fox en Brer Possum feel in mo'nin' wid Brer Rabbit. **Who acts:** Present'y, oblije, Fox, dat sorter, Brer, mo'nin · **What happens:** be, say, fear, do, go, make · **To what, where:** Brer, en, Brer Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Present'y, oblije, Fox, dat sorter), 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:pg2306:20:25 # text = "'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fear'd she's done gone by now,' en dat sorter make Brer Fox en Brer Possum feel in mo'nin' wid Brer Rabbit. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 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 cop _ _ 5 oblije oblije ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 6 ter ter ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 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 , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 28 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 37 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 Fox fox VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 42 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 mo'nin mo'nin NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 47 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Present'y | | | | | ter you; oblije *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | oblije and Brer Fox | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | Present'y | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | Fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | would · passive | Fox | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by now=Location | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | dat sorter | Brer | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fox** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer *not said here* | en | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus en=Experiencer | | 8 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Brer | | | | | in mo'nin | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in mo'nin=Attribute | | 9 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | mo'nin *not said here* | Brer Rabbit | | | | | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/26/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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