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title: Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard IX. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard IX. Who acts: Buzzard. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 7

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Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard IX.

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**Who acts:** Buzzard · **What happens:** outdo · **To what, where:** Mr. Fox

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buzzard), 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:pg2306:3:7
# text = Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard IX.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	outdone	outdo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	IX	IX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outdo** *in a quote* | present · passive | Buzzard  Mr. | Mr. Fox |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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