--- title: "Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz 'gree'ble. Who acts: ha'r, sick fer ter, fer ter, dinner. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/) / 27 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 27 "Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz 'gree'ble. **Who acts:** ha'r, sick fer ter, fer ter, dinner, Brer, Mink · **What happens:** wuz, come, ax, take, wi, say · **To what, where:** kaze wuz, en, ha'r · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ha'r, sick fer ter, fer ter, dinner), 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:pg2306:4:27 # text = "Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz 'gree'ble. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Nex Nex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 7 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 sont sont NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Mink Mink PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 skuze skuze NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 43 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 ' 's PART POS _ 45 case _ SpaceAfter=No 47 gree'ble gree'ble NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | | ha'r | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | sick fer ter | kaze wuz and en ax *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wuz=Theme | | 3 | **ax** *in a quote* | | ha'r | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | en | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present | | | | | day | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 6 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | dinner | ha'r | | | | en *obl* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Brer | en *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic | | 8 | **gree'ble** *in a quote* | | ha'r | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **word** *in a quote* | | Mink Mr. | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: by=agent | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/28/) - ↑ back to [I. 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