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title: "Brer Fox son wuz name Tobe, en Brer Rabbit tell Tobe fer ter keep s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Fox son wuz name Tobe, en Brer Rabbit tell Tobe fer ter keep still w'iles his mammy cook de nice beef w'at his daddy sont 'im. Who acts: Brer, Tobe fer ter, nice beef. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its depen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 42

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"Brer Fox son wuz name Tobe, en Brer Rabbit tell Tobe fer ter keep still w'iles his mammy cook de nice beef w'at his daddy sont 'im.

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**Who acts:** Brer, Tobe fer ter, nice beef · **What happens:** tell, keep, w'ile, w'at · **To what, where:** mammy cook, im · **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 (Brer, Tobe fer ter, nice beef), 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:pg2306:37:42
# text = "Brer Fox son wuz name Tobe, en Brer Rabbit tell Tobe fer ter keep still w'iles his mammy cook de nice beef w'at his daddy sont 'im.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	w'iles	w'ile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	_
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	w'at	w'at	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Brer and Tobe  wuz name and en and Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Tobe fer ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **w'ile** *in a quote* | present | Tobe fer ter *not said here* | en's mammy cook |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **w'at** *in a quote* | past | nice beef | en's daddy sont's im |  |  |  |  | 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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