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title: Fokes tole 'im he could git long faster in de road, but ole Brer Tar… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fokes tole 'im he could git long faster in de road, but ole Brer Tarrypin, he know w'at he doin'. Who acts: ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 17

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Fokes tole 'im he could git long faster in de road, but ole Brer Tarrypin, he know w'at he doin'.

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**Who acts:** ter · **What happens:** know, doin · **To what, where:** ole Brer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ter), 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:pg2306:21:17
# text = Fokes tole 'im he could git long faster in de road, but ole Brer Tarrypin, he know w'at he doin'.
1	Fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	im	im	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | ter | ole Brer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **doin** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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