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title: Brer Fox 'low dat he want er invite to dinner, but he don't say nuth… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Fox 'low dat he want er invite to dinner, but he don't say nuthin', en bimeby Brer Rabbit he up'n say, sezee: Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox. 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 e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 14

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Brer Fox 'low dat he want er invite to dinner, but he don't say nuthin', en bimeby Brer Rabbit he up'n say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Brer Fox, Fox · **What happens:** want, not say, say · **To what, where:** invite, nuthin en bimeby, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg2306:37:14
# text = Brer Fox 'low dat he want er invite to dinner, but he don't say nuthin', en bimeby Brer Rabbit he up'n say, sezee:
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	er	er	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PART	POS	_	18	dep	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Brer Fox and low dat | er invite |  |  |  | to dinner | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent invite=Theme to dinner=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Fox | nuthin en bimeby |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bimeby=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Fox | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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