--- title: "'Dat's so, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'you duz look sorter stove up. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Dat's so, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'you duz look sorter stove up. Who acts: Dat, you. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/42/) [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/) / 42 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 42 "'Dat's so, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'you duz look sorter stove up. **Who acts:** Dat, you · **What happens:** be, duz, look, stove up · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, sorter 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 (Dat, you), 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:pg2306:32:42 # text = "'Dat's so, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'you duz look sorter stove up. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 duz duz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 17 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 stove stove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dat | Brer Fox and sezee | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **duz** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | sorter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stove up** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/43/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/)