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title: "Brer Fox en Brer Possum rustle roun', dey did, gittin out de vittle… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox en Brer Possum rustle roun', dey did, gittin out de vittles, en bimeby Brer Fox, he say, sezee: Who acts: Fox en, roun dey, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 31

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"Brer Fox en Brer Possum rustle roun', dey did, gittin out de vittles, en bimeby Brer Fox, he say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Fox en, roun dey, de · **What happens:** rustle, do, gittin out, vittle, say · **To what, where:** en bimeby, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fox en, roun dey, de), 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:pg2306:20:31
# text = "Brer Fox en Brer Possum rustle roun', dey did, gittin out de vittles, en bimeby Brer Fox, he say, sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	rustle	rustle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PART	POS	_	8	dep	_	_
10	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gittin	gittin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	vittles	vittle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** *in a quote* | present | Fox en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | roun dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gittin out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fox en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vittle** *in a quote* | present | de | en bimeby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | de | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=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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