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title: Ole Brer Fox, he grab de sludge-hammer, he did, en he come down on d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Brer Fox, he grab de sludge-hammer, he did, en he come down on de rock--blim! Who acts: Ole Brer Fox, Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 23

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Ole Brer Fox, he grab de sludge-hammer, he did, en he come down on de rock--blim!

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**Who acts:** Ole Brer Fox, Fox · **What happens:** grab, do, come down · **To what, where:** de sludge hammer, en, de rock

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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 (Ole Brer Fox, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:33:23
# text = Ole Brer Fox, he grab de sludge-hammer, he did, en he come down on de rock--blim!
1	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	blim	blim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | present | Ole Brer Fox | de sludge hammer |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Fox | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come down** | present | Fox | en *not said here* |  | de rock and blim |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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