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title: "'Hit's so much trouble fer ter kindle a fier,' sez Brer Fox, sezee,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Hit's so much trouble fer ter kindle a fier,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dat I speck I'll hatter hang you,' sezee. Who acts: Hit, you, Bimeby. 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 p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 22

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"'Hit's so much trouble fer ter kindle a fier,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dat I speck I'll hatter hang you,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Hit, you, Bimeby · **What happens:** be, kindle, say, speck, hang · **To what, where:** much fer ter, fier, Brer Fox, dat, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Hit, you, Bimeby), 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:pg2306:7:22
# text = "'Hit's so much trouble fer ter kindle a fier,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dat I speck I'll hatter hang you,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Hit | much fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kindle** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a fier |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fier=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer Fox and sezee |  |  |  | dat *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 4 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | future | Bimeby | you |  |  |  | sezee *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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