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title: "'Ladies, Brer Fox wuz my daddy's ridin'-hoss fer thirty year; maybe… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Ladies, Brer Fox wuz my daddy's ridin'-hoss fer thirty year; maybe mo', but thirty year dat I knows un,' sezee; en den he paid um his 'specks, en tip his beaver, en march off, he did, des ez stiff en ez stuck up ez a fire-stick. Who acts: Miss Meadows, en den, beaver. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, H
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 20

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"'Ladies, Brer Fox wuz my daddy's ridin'-hoss fer thirty year; maybe mo', but thirty year dat I knows un,' sezee; en den he paid um his 'specks, en tip his beaver, en march off, he did, des ez stiff en ez stuck up ez a fire-stick.

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**Who acts:** Miss Meadows, en den, beaver · **What happens:** know, pay off, tip, do, stick up · **To what, where:** un, en march, ez stiff en ez

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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 (Miss Meadows, en den, beaver), 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:pg2306:9:20
# text = "'Ladies, Brer Fox wuz my daddy's ridin'-hoss fer thirty year; maybe mo', but thirty year dat I knows un,' sezee; en den he paid um his 'specks, en tip his beaver, en march off, he did, des ez stiff en ez stuck up ez a fire-stick.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	ridin	ridin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	um	um	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	'	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
55	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
56	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
59	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
60	up	up	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	ez	ez	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
63	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Miss Meadows *= meadow* | un and sezee |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer un=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pay off** *in a quote* | past | en den | en march |  |  |  | um den's specks | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tip** *in a quote* |  | den's beaver |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | beaver |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stick up** *in a quote* | participle |  | des ez stiff en ez *not said here* |  |  |  | ez a fire stick | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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