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title: "De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, en den--" — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, en den--" 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 71

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"De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, en den--"

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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: 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:pg2306:22:71
# text = "De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, en den--"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tattlin	tattlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	toof	toof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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