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title: "He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did. Who acts: boy, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 2

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"He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did.

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**Who acts:** boy, Brer · **What happens:** come, bear, do · **To what, where:** honey, sho

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Brer), 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:pg2306:5:2
# text = "He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | boy | honey |  |  |  | mighty *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | sho |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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