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title: "Well, den, one day Brer Rabbit go ter Brer Fox house, he did, en he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, den, one day Brer Rabbit go ter Brer Fox house, he did, en he put up mighty po' mouf. Who acts: den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 10

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"Well, den, one day Brer Rabbit go ter Brer Fox house, he did, en he put up mighty po' mouf.

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**Who acts:** den · **What happens:** go, do, put up · **To what, where:** en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den), 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:pg2306:37:10
# text = "Well, den, one day Brer Rabbit go ter Brer Fox house, he did, en he put up mighty po' mouf.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | den and one day |  |  |  |  | ter Fox house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put up** *in a quote* | past | den | en |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouf=Goal |

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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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