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title: Brer Fox, he seed his game wuz up, en 'twan't long 'fo' he make his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox, he seed his game wuz up, en 'twan't long 'fo' he make his skuse en start fer ter go. Who acts: Fox, game, skuse fer ter. 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 ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 37

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Brer Fox, he seed his game wuz up, en 'twan't long 'fo' he make his skuse en start fer ter go.

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**Who acts:** Fox, game, skuse fer ter · **What happens:** seed, wuz up, not make, not go · **To what, where:** seed, skuse fer ter

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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, game, skuse fer 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:pg2306:25:37
# text = Brer Fox, he seed his game wuz up, en 'twan't long 'fo' he make his skuse en start fer ter go.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	20	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
22	skuse	skuse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seed** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz up** | present | Fox's game | seed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make** | infinitive | game | Fox's skuse fer ter |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** | infinitive | Fox's skuse fer ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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