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title: Den Brer Fox grit his tushes sho' nuff, he did, en he look mighty du… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox grit his tushes sho' nuff, he did, en he look mighty dumpy, but w'en he riz fer ter go he up en say, sezee: Who acts: Den, w'en riz, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 22

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Den Brer Fox grit his tushes sho' nuff, he did, en he look mighty dumpy, but w'en he riz fer ter go he up en say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Den, w'en riz, en · **What happens:** grit, tush, do, look, riz, go up · **To what, where:** sho, en, den, sezee · **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 (Den, w'en riz, en), 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:pg2306:9:22
# text = Den Brer Fox grit his tushes sho' nuff, he did, en he look mighty dumpy, but w'en he riz fer ter go he up en say, sezee:
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	grit	grit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tushes	tush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	riz	riz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grit** | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tush** | present | Den *not said here* | sho and nuff |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | den | en |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | den |  |  |  |  | dumpy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **riz** |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go up** | infinitive | w'en riz and fer ter | den |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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