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title: Brer Fox, he sot dar en study w'at sorter skuse he gwineter make up. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox, he sot dar en study w'at sorter skuse he gwineter make up. Who acts: Fox, Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 14

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Brer Fox, he sot dar en study w'at sorter skuse he gwineter make up.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Brer Fox · **What happens:** gwineter, make up

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Brer Fox), 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:pg2306:25:14
# text = Brer Fox, he sot dar en study w'at sorter skuse he gwineter make up.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
5	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	skuse	skuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwineter** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | infinitive | Brer Fox and skuse gwineter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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