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title: Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad. Who acts: Den Fox, dat. 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 31

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Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad.

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**Who acts:** Den Fox, dat · **What happens:** know, bin, swop off · **To what, where:** dat · **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 (Den Fox, dat), 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:pg2306:7:31
# text = Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	swop	swop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Den Fox | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** | present | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swop off** | infinitive | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | 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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