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title: Den Brer Fox he git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox he git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wood, en tell de little Rabbits fer ter put dat on de fier. Who acts: great big stick, er wood, little Rabbits. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, wi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 32

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Den Brer Fox he git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wood, en tell de little Rabbits fer ter put dat on de fier.

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**Who acts:** great big stick, er wood, little Rabbits · **What happens:** wood, tell, put · **To what, where:** mighty mad en p'int, dat, de fier · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (great big stick, er wood, little Rabbits), 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:pg2306:25:32
# text = Den Brer Fox he git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wood, en tell de little Rabbits fer ter put dat on de fier.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
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	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	p'int	p'int	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
21	de	de	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
27	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wood** |  | great big stick |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a er wood and en | mighty mad en p'int |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent git=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put** | past | little Rabbits | dat |  | de fier |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme on fier=Destination |

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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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