--- title: "Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer Rabbit cut Brer Fox loose des in time fer ter hear Mr. Man w'isserlin up his dogs, en one went one way en de udder went nudder." Who acts: Brer, onfrennelness, en, en udder. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/47/) [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/) / 47 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 47 "Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer Rabbit cut Brer Fox loose des in time fer ter hear Mr. Man w'isserlin up his dogs, en one went one way en de udder went nudder." **Who acts:** Brer, onfrennelness, en, en udder · **What happens:** say, not have, cut, hear, go · **To what, where:** w'ich, Brer Fox, Man w'isserlin, one way · **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, onfrennelness, en, en udder), 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:pg2306:32:47 # text = "Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer Rabbit cut Brer Fox loose des in time fer ter hear Mr. Man w'isserlin up his dogs, en one went one way en de udder went nudder." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 onfrennelness onfrennelness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 28 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:desc _ _ 29 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 w'isserlin w'isserlin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 flat _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 en en X FW Foreign=Yes 42 compound _ _ 41 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 40 flat:foreign _ _ 42 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 44 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Brer | w'ich | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Brer | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cut** *in a quote* | past | no onfrennelness and en wid dat | Brer Fox and loose des in time fer ter | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fox=Product | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Man w'isserlin | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer w'isserlin=Stimulus | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | en | | | | | up Brer's dogs | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | past | en udder | one way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nudder=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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/46/) - next →: [XXX. 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