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title: Miss Fox, she git mighty mad w'en she fine she cookin' her ole man h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Fox, she git mighty mad w'en she fine she cookin' her ole man head, en she call up de dogs, she did, en sickt em on Brer Rabbit; en ole Miss Fox en Tobe en de dogs, dey push Brer Rabbit so close dat he hatter take a holler tree. Who acts: gwine, Miss Fox, ole man head, head. A sentence of «Uncl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 44

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Miss Fox, she git mighty mad w'en she fine she cookin' her ole man head, en she call up de dogs, she did, en sickt em on Brer Rabbit; en ole Miss Fox en Tobe en de dogs, dey push Brer Rabbit so close dat he hatter take a holler tree.

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**Who acts:** gwine, Miss Fox, ole man head, head, en, ole en Tobe en · **What happens:** w'en, fine, call up, do, en, push · **To what, where:** she cookin, de dogs, sickt em, Brer, Brer Rabbit, holler tree

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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 (gwine, Miss Fox, ole man head, head), 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:pg2306:37:44
# text = Miss Fox, she git mighty mad w'en she fine she cookin' her ole man head, en she call up de dogs, she did, en sickt em on Brer Rabbit; en ole Miss Fox en Tobe en de dogs, dey push Brer Rabbit so close dat he hatter take a holler tree.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	compound	_	_
12	cookin	cookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sickt	sickt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
37	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
43	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	flat:foreign	_	_
44	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
52	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **w'en** |  | gwine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fine** | past | Miss Fox and mighty mad w'en | she cookin |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cookin=Recipient |
| 3 | **call up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | gwine's ole man head and en |  | de dogs |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past | head | sickt em |  | Brer |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent em=Eventuality |
| 5 | **en** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **push** | present | ole en Tobe en | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  | close *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | infinitive | ole en Tobe en *not said here* | a holler tree |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |

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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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