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title: Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- wee… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- weed, en dat Brer Rabbit married ole Miss Fox, en some say not. Who acts: Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 61

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Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- weed, en dat Brer Rabbit married ole Miss Fox, en some say not.

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**Who acts:** Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** say, die, fum, marry, not say · **To what, where:** dat, eatin, ole Miss Fox, en · **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 (Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit), 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:pg2306:37:61
# text = Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- weed, en dat Brer Rabbit married ole Miss Fox, en some say not.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	eatin	eatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
15	pizen	pizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
24	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | dat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past | Brer Rabbit's ole oman |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fum** | infinitive | Brer Rabbit's ole oman *not said here* | eatin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | past | Brer Rabbit | ole Miss Fox |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic |

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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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