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title: Come out yer, Brer Fox, en I'll show you de man w'at bin stealin' yo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Come out yer, Brer Fox, en I'll show you de man w'at bin stealin' yo' goobers.' Who acts: you, Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 28

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Come out yer, Brer Fox, en I'll show you de man w'at bin stealin' yo' goobers.'

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**Who acts:** you, Brer Fox · **What happens:** come out, show, stealin · **To what, where:** yo goobers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg2306:26:28
# text = Come out yer, Brer Fox, en I'll show you de man w'at bin stealin' yo' goobers.'
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	de	de	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stealin	stealin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	goobers	goober	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out, y *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | future | Brer Fox and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stealin** |  | you | yo goobers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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