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title: "Brer Fox he des sorter canter long, he did, en make like he don't h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox he des sorter canter long, he did, en make like he don't hear 'im. Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 50

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"Brer Fox he des sorter canter long, he did, en make like he don't hear 'im.

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox, en · **What happens:** de, do, make, not hear · **To what, where:** sorter, im · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. 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, Fox, en), 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:pg2306:22:50
# text = "Brer Fox he des sorter canter long, he did, en make like he don't hear 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	canter	cant	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** *in a quote* | present | Brer Fox | sorter |  |  |  | cant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Fox | im |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer im=Stimulus |

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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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