--- title: "'Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. Who acts: you, sake. 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 d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/) / 23 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 23 "'Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. **Who acts:** you, sake · **What happens:** hang, say, do, not fling · **To what, where:** Bimeby, Brer, fer, dat brier patch · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, sake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:7:23 # text = "'Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 des des X FW Foreign=Yes 3 obj _ _ 6 ez ez ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 please please INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 brier brier NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Bimeby | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient des=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | fer | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **fling** *in a quote* | present · do-support | de Lord's sake | Bimeby | | dat brier patch and sezee | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in patch=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/24/) - ↑ back to [IV. 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