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title: Dish yer's whar ole Brer Fox los' his breff, en he ain't fine it no… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dish yer's whar ole Brer Fox los' his breff, en he ain't fine it no mo' down ter dis day." Who acts: you, breff. 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 2

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Dish yer's whar ole Brer Fox los' his breff, en he ain't fine it no mo' down ter dis day."

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**Who acts:** you, breff · **What happens:** dish, not be · **To what, where:** yer

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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, breff), 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:pg2306:37:2
# text = Dish yer's whar ole Brer Fox los' his breff, en he ain't fine it no mo' down ter dis day."
1	Dish	dish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	los	los	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	breff	breff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	ter	ter	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dish** | imperative | you *not said here* | yer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Remus's breff and en |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | 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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