--- title: Brer Fox make a great 'miration, he did, 'bout de fix w'at he fin' B… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Fox make a great 'miration, he did, 'bout de fix w'at he fin' Brer Rabbit in, but Brer Rabbit he make like he fit ter kill hisse'f laffin', en he up'n tell Brer Fox, he did, dat Miss Meadows's fokes want 'im ter go down ter der house in 'tennunce on a weddin', en he 'low w'ich he couldn't, en d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/) / 28 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 28 Brer Fox make a great 'miration, he did, 'bout de fix w'at he fin' Brer Rabbit in, but Brer Rabbit he make like he fit ter kill hisse'f laffin', en he up'n tell Brer Fox, he did, dat Miss Meadows's fokes want 'im ter go down ter der house in 'tennunce on a weddin', en he 'low w'ich he couldn't, en dey 'low how he could, en den bimeby dey take'n tie 'im dar w'iles dey go atter de preacher, so he be dar' w'en dey come back. **Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox, Brer Rabbit, ter, fokes, im ter · **What happens:** make, do, ', fin, fit, kill · **To what, where:** great miration, bout, Brer Rabbit, laffin en, Brer Fox, im ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Fox, Fox, Brer Rabbit, ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:32:28 # text = Brer Fox make a great 'miration, he did, 'bout de fix w'at he fin' Brer Rabbit in, but Brer Rabbit he make like he fit ter kill hisse'f laffin', en he up'n tell Brer Fox, he did, dat Miss Meadows's fokes want 'im ter go down ter der house in 'tennunce on a weddin', en he 'low w'ich he couldn't, en dey 'low how he could, en den bimeby dey take'n tie 'im dar w'iles dey go atter de preacher, so he be dar' w'en dey come back. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 miration miration NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ' ' VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fin fin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fit fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 laffin laffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ', ', PART POS _ 35 dep _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 up'n up'n CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 dat dat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 48 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 Meadows Meadows PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 ccomp _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 56 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 xcomp _ _ 57 down down ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 58 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 59 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 60 amod _ _ 60 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 tennunce tennunce NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 64 on on ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 weddin weddin NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ', ', PART POS _ 66 dep _ _ 68 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 69 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj _ _ 70 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ _ 73 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 nsubj _ _ 74 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 72 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 74 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 76 , , PUNCT , _ 78 punct _ _ 77 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 compound _ _ 78 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 conj _ _ 79 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 78 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 78 amod _ _ 81 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 83 advmod _ _ 82 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 83 nsubj _ _ 83 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 80 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 84 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 85 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 conj _ _ 86 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 87 compound _ _ 87 bimeby bimeby NOUN NN Number=Sing 88 compound _ _ 88 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 89 compound _ _ 89 take'n take'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 90 compound _ _ 90 tie tie NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 conj _ _ 91 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 92 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 92 im im X FW Foreign=Yes 95 dep _ _ 93 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 94 amod _ _ 94 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 95 compound _ _ 95 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 90 conj _ _ 96 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ _ 97 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 96 obj _ _ 98 de de ADP IN _ 99 case _ _ 99 preacher preacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 96 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 100 , , PUNCT , _ 104 punct _ _ 101 so so ADV RB _ 104 advmod _ _ 102 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 104 nsubj _ _ 103 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 104 cop _ _ 104 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 108 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 105 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 104 punct _ _ 106 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 107 nummod _ _ 107 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 108 nsubj _ _ 108 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 109 back back ADV RB _ 108 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 110 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Brer Fox | a great miration | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miration=Product | | 2 | **do** | past | Fox | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **'** | infinitive | Brer Fox *not said here* | bout | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fin** | | Fox | Brer Rabbit | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | Brer Rabbit | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fit** | past | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **kill** | present | ter | laffin en | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Fox | laffin en *not said here* | Brer Fox | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | | 9 | **do** | past | Fox | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **dat** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **want** | present | Miss Meadows's fokes | im ter | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **go down** *not said to happen* | infinitive | im ter *not said here* | ter der house | | | | on weddin en; in tennunce; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tennunce=Attribute | | 13 | **w'ich** | | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 14 | **go** | infinitive | im ter *not said here* | atter | | | | de preacher | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location atter=Theme | | 15 | **is** | infinitive | Fox | | | | | dar *property* | tree rules | | 16 | **come back** | present | dar | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/29/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/)