--- title: Miss Fox, she tell Tobe fer ter stay dar en mine Brer Rabbit, w'ile… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Miss Fox, she tell Tobe fer ter stay dar en mine Brer Rabbit, w'ile she goes en git de ax, en w'en she gone, Brer Rabbit, he tole Tobe ef he go ter de branch en git 'im a drink er water dat he'll gin 'im a dollar. Who acts: Miss Fox, fer ter, head, git. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss Fox, fer ter, head, git), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:37:45 # text = Miss Fox, she tell Tobe fer ter stay dar en mine Brer Rabbit, w'ile she goes en git de ax, en w'en she gone, Brer Rabbit, he tole Tobe ef he go ter de branch en git 'im a drink er water dat he'll gin 'im a dollar. 1 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 Tobe Tobe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 13 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 list _ _ 14 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 w'ile w'ile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 21 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 22 compound _ _ 22 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 tole tole NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 34 Tobe Tobe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 35 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 ter ter ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 im im ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 47 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 49 amod _ _ 48 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 gin gin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 acl:relcl _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 im im ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 dollar dollar NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Miss Fox | | Tobe | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent tobe=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **stay** | present | fer ter | dar en mine | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme en=Location | | 3 | **go** | present | head | w'ile *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location w'ile=Theme | | 4 | **tole** | | git | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | present | git | de en git im a drink and er water dat | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tole=Theme | | 6 | **gin** | future | Fox | a dollar | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/46/) - ↑ back to [XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/)