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title: "'Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, se… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee. Who acts: you. 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 pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 25

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"'Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** drown, say, not fling · **To what, where:** Bimeby, Brer, dat brier patch · **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 (you), 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:pg2306:7:25
# text = "'Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Drown	drown	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	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
10	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	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	parataxis	_	_
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	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	fling	fling	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Bimeby |  |  |  | ez deep ez *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **fling** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | Bimeby |  | dat brier patch and sezee |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in patch=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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