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title: "'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox--bred en bawn in a brier-p… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox--bred en bawn in a brier-patch!' en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers." Who acts: Bred en bawn, 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, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 33

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"'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox--bred en bawn in a brier-patch!' en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers."

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**Who acts:** Bred en bawn, Brer · **What happens:** breed, skip out · **To what, where:** en bawn, brier patch, des

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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 (Bred en bawn, 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:pg2306:7:33
# text = "'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox--bred en bawn in a brier-patch!' en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bawn	bawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	csubj	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bawn	bawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	obj	_	_
32	ez	ez	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	ez	ez	X	FW	_	36	compound	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **breed** *in a quote* | past | Bred en bawn in a brier patch | en bawn |  | a brier patch |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **skip out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer | des |  |  |  | a lively ez cricket in de embers *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent des=Agent |

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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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