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title: "'You better Stay en take a snack wid me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You better Stay en take a snack wid me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. ' Who acts: You, snack. 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 38

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"'You better Stay en take a snack wid me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '

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**Who acts:** You, snack · **What happens:** stay, take, wi, say · **To what, where:** en, dey, Brer · **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 (You, snack), 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:pg2306:25:38
# text = "'You better Stay en take a snack wid me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	obj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | You | en |  |  |  | Brer Fox *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | a snack | dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | You *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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