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title: Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brierpatch,' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brierpatch,' sezee. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 21

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Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brierpatch,' sezee.

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**What happens:** not fling · **To what, where:** me, dat brierpatch

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:7:21
# text = Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brierpatch,' sezee.
1	Roas	roa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	brierpatch	brierpatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fling** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  | dat brierpatch and sezee |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in brierpatch=Destination |

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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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