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title: "'Oh, yes! you er kotch, is you?' sez Brer Fox, en 'fo' Brer B'ar co… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Oh, yes! you er kotch, is you?' sez Brer Fox, en 'fo' Brer B'ar could 'splain, Brer Rabbit he jump up en down, en holler out: Who acts: you, Brer B'ar, Brer Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 30

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"'Oh, yes! you er kotch, is you?' sez Brer Fox, en 'fo' Brer B'ar could 'splain, Brer Rabbit he jump up en down, en holler out:

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**Who acts:** you, Brer B'ar, Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** er, be, say, splain, jump up · **To what, where:** kotch, you, Brer Fox, en · **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 B'ar, Brer Rabbit), 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:pg2306:26:30
# text = "'Oh, yes! you er kotch, is you?' sez Brer Fox, en 'fo' Brer B'ar could 'splain, Brer Rabbit he jump up en down, en holler out:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	csubj	_	_
9	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	splain	splain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | present | you | kotch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer Fox and en |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 4 | **splain** *in a quote* | could | Brer B'ar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Rabbit | en |  |  |  | en holler *obl*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory |

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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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