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title: "Nex' day, Brer Fox cum a callin', and w'en he gun fer ter laugh 'bo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nex' day, Brer Fox cum a callin', and w'en he gun fer ter laugh 'bout Brer Rabbit, Miss Meadows en de gals, dey ups en tells 'im 'bout w'at Brer Rabbit Say. Who acts: callin, Nex day. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 21

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"Nex' day, Brer Fox cum a callin', and w'en he gun fer ter laugh 'bout Brer Rabbit, Miss Meadows en de gals, dey ups en tells 'im 'bout w'at Brer Rabbit Say.

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**Who acts:** callin, Nex day · **What happens:** laugh, tell · **To what, where:** im · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (callin, Nex day), 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:pg2306:9:21
# text = "Nex' day, Brer Fox cum a callin', and w'en he gun fer ter laugh 'bout Brer Rabbit, Miss Meadows en de gals, dey ups en tells 'im 'bout w'at Brer Rabbit Say.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	callin	callin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	',	',	PART	POS	_	10	dep	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
17	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
33	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Say	Say	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* |  | a callin and w'en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Nex day | im |  |  |  | bout w'at | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent im=Recipient |

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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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