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title: "Well, sho nuff, de nex' day fotch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox say, sez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, sho nuff, de nex' day fotch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox say, sezee: Who acts: sho nuff. 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 17

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"Well, sho nuff, de nex' day fotch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** sho nuff · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** 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 (sho nuff), 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:pg2306:37:17
# text = "Well, sho nuff, de nex' day fotch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox say, sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	5	compound	_	_
5	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | sho nuff and nex day fotch and en | 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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