--- title: Dar's ole Brer Fox, he des wheel 'roun' en fetch his flank one swipe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dar's ole Brer Fox, he des wheel 'roun' en fetch his flank one swipe wid 'is tongue en he'd be koam up; en Brer Rabbit, he des spit on his han' en twis' it 'roun' 'mongst de roots er his years en his ha'r'd be roach. Who acts: Fox, ole Brer Fox, en, years. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/3/) [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/) / 3 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 3 Dar's ole Brer Fox, he des wheel 'roun' en fetch his flank one swipe wid 'is tongue en he'd be koam up; en Brer Rabbit, he des spit on his han' en twis' it 'roun' 'mongst de roots er his years en his ha'r'd be roach. **Who acts:** Fox, ole Brer Fox, en, years, ha'r · **What happens:** de, fetch, be, koam up, spit, roun · **To what, where:** wheel, flank, tongue en, Fox, han, roach 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, ole Brer Fox, en, years), 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:pg2306:33:3 # text = Dar's ole Brer Fox, he des wheel 'roun' en fetch his flank one swipe wid 'is tongue en he'd be koam up; en Brer Rabbit, he des spit on his han' en twis' it 'roun' 'mongst de roots er his years en his ha'r'd be roach. 1 Dar Dar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 des de VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 en en PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 flank flank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 swipe swipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 koam koam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 31 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 twis twi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 mongst mongst ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 51 nmod _ _ 51 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ _ 52 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 55 advmod _ _ 53 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 55 en en VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 56 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 ha'r ha'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 59 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 60 cop _ _ 60 roach roach NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **de** | present | Fox | wheel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | Fox *not said here* | Fox's flank | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent flank=Beneficiary wid=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Dar's ole Brer Fox | tongue en | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **koam up** | would · passive | | Fox | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spit** | | Fox | | | Fox's han 's en twis | | | tree rules | | 6 | **roun** | | en | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **en** | past | Fox's years | | | | | mongst roots de | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | would | Fox's ha'r | roach | | | | | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/4/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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