--- title: Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox cookin' some nice beef, en his mouf gun ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox cookin' some nice beef, en his mouf gun ter water, but he take de fier, he did, en he put out to'rds home; but present'y yer he come back, en he say de fier done gone out. Who acts: Brer, en, yer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en, yer), 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:pg2306:37:13 # text = Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox cookin' some nice beef, en his mouf gun ter water, but he take de fier, he did, en he put out to'rds home; but present'y yer he come back, en he say de fier done gone out. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cookin cookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 beef beef NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 ter ter PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 to'rds to'rd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 present'y present'y ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 nsubj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 46 compound _ _ 46 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 acl _ _ 48 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 xcomp _ _ 49 out out ADP RP _ 48 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | infinitive | Brer | Brer Fox cookin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | en | de | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument de=Theme fier=Destination | | 3 | **do** | past | en | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put out** | past | en | en | | | | home *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to'rd=Goal | | 5 | **come back** | infinitive | yer | en | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en | de fier | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fier=Topic | | 7 | **do** | participle | | de fier *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go out** | participle | | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/14/) - ↑ back to [XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/)