--- title: Brer Fox, he juk en he jump, en he squeal en he squall, but Mr. Man,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Fox, he juk en he jump, en he squeal en he squall, but Mr. Man, he shower down on 'im, he did, like fightin' a red was'nes'." Who acts: Fox, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/36/) [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/) / 36 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 36 Brer Fox, he juk en he jump, en he squeal en he squall, but Mr. Man, he shower down on 'im, he did, like fightin' a red was'nes'." **Who acts:** Fox, en · **What happens:** en, squeal, squall, shower down, do · **To what, where:** en, im, fightin 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 (Fox, en), 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:pg2306:32:36 # text = Brer Fox, he juk en he jump, en he squeal en he squall, but Mr. Man, he shower down on 'im, he did, like fightin' a red was'nes'." 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 juk juk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 squeal squeal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 squall squall NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shower shower VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 23 down down ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 im im NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 fightin fightin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 was'nes was'nes NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **en** | | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **squeal** | present | en | en *not said here* | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent en=Theme | | 3 | **squall** *speech: other* | | en | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shower down** | present | en | | | im | | Man Mr. *vocative* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on im=Destination | | 5 | **do** | past | en | fightin | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fightin=Eventuality | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/37/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. 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