--- title: Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rab… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rabbit got de groun'-eatch, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter shet one eye, he did, en say, sezee: Who acts: Fox, en, Brer, Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/19/) [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/) / [XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raisi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/) / 19 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 19 Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rabbit got de groun'-eatch, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter shet one eye, he did, en say, sezee: **Who acts:** Fox, en, Brer, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** holler out, do, say, lie, get, sorter · **To what, where:** de groun, one eye, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. 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, Brer, Rabbit), 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:pg2306:33:19 # text = Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rabbit got de groun'-eatch, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter shet one eye, he did, en say, sezee: 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 eatch eatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 shet shet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **holler out** *speech: other* | | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | Fox | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **lie** | past | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | past | Brer | de groun and eatch | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groun=Stimulus | | 6 | **sorter** | | Rabbit | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shet** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit | one eye | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | past | Rabbit | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en | sezee | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/20/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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