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title: En Brer Fox ain't never kotch 'im yit, en w'at's mo', honey, he ain'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En Brer Fox ain't never kotch 'im yit, en w'at's mo', honey, he ain't gwineter." Who acts: Fox ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 38

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En Brer Fox ain't never kotch 'im yit, en w'at's mo', honey, he ain't gwineter."

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**Who acts:** Fox ai · **What happens:** not kotch · **To what, where:** yit honey

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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 (Fox ai), 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:pg2306:4:38
# text = En Brer Fox ain't never kotch 'im yit, en w'at's mo', honey, he ain't gwineter."
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	kotch	kotch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **kotch** | infinitive | Fox ai | yit honey |  |  |  |  | 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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