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title: "'Brer Fox, whar you git so much nice beef?' sezee, en den Brer Fox… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Brer Fox, whar you git so much nice beef?' sezee, en den Brer Fox he up'n 'spon', sezee: Who acts: you, sezee. 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 15

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"'Brer Fox, whar you git so much nice beef?' sezee, en den Brer Fox he up'n 'spon', sezee:

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**Who acts:** you, sezee · **What happens:** fox, up'n

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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 (you, sezee), 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:pg2306:37:15
# text = "'Brer Fox, whar you git so much nice beef?' sezee, en den Brer Fox he up'n 'spon', sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	spon	spon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	',	',	PART	POS	_	24	dep	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **up'n** *in a quote* |  | sezee |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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