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title: "'Roas'n, er bakin', er fryin',' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'don't git too… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Roas'n, er bakin', er fryin',' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'don't git too nigh de haslett,' sezee. Who acts: Roas'n, er fryin. 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 25

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"'Roas'n, er bakin', er fryin',' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'don't git too nigh de haslett,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Roas'n, er fryin · **What happens:** fryin, say, do · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, git · **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 (Roas'n, er fryin), 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:pg2306:37:25
# text = "'Roas'n, er bakin', er fryin',' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'don't git too nigh de haslett,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Roas'n	Roas'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bakin	bakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	er	er	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	fryin	fryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	haslett	haslett	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fryin** *in a quote* |  | Roas'n |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | er fryin | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | git |  |  |  | de haslett and sezee *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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