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title: "Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch '… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung 'im right in de middle er de brier-patch. Who acts: Co'se Fox wanter, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 28

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"Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung 'im right in de middle er de brier-patch.

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**Who acts:** Co'se Fox wanter, Brer · **What happens:** hurt, kin, im, sling · **To what, where:** Brer, de middle er

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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 (Co'se Fox wanter, Brer), 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:pg2306:7:28
# text = "Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung 'im right in de middle er de brier-patch.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	cotch	cotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
21	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
27	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	de	de	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** *in a quote* | past | Co'se Fox wanter | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=Patient |
| 2 | **kin** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **im** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sling** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | by de legs en | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by en=Destination |
| 5 | **im** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | de middle er de brier patch |  |  | 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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