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title: W'en Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox wuz laid out fer good, he make like he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox wuz laid out fer good, he make like he mighty sorry, en he up'n ax de man fer Brer Fox head. Who acts: W'en, en. 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 o
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 39

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W'en Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox wuz laid out fer good, he make like he mighty sorry, en he up'n ax de man fer Brer Fox head.

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**Who acts:** W'en, en · **What happens:** see, lay out, make, ax · **To what, where:** Brer Fox wuz

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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 (W'en, en), 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:pg2306:37:39
# text = W'en Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox wuz laid out fer good, he make like he mighty sorry, en he up'n ax de man fer Brer Fox head.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | W'en | Brer Fox wuz |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wuz=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lay out** | participle |  | Brer Fox wuz *not said here* |  |  |  | good *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | W'en |  |  |  |  | like man; sorry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ax** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | 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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