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title: Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'- birds. Who acts: Den, dez. 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 33

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Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'- birds.

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**Who acts:** Den, dez · **What happens:** sa'nter, mockin · **To what, where:** fort

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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 (Den, dez), 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:pg2306:5:33
# text = Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'- birds.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sa'ntered	sa'nter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	dez	dez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
12	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
13	innercent	innercent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
14	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	mockin	mockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sa'nter** | past | Den | fort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mockin** |  | dez |  |  |  |  |  | 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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