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title: Brer Rabbit say he can't set in saddle less he have bridle fer ter h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit say he can't set in saddle less he have bridle fer ter hol' by. Who acts: Brer, bridle. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 50

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Brer Rabbit say he can't set in saddle less he have bridle fer ter hol' by.

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**Who acts:** Brer, bridle · **What happens:** say, not set, have, hol · **To what, where:** saddle · **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 (Brer, bridle), 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:pg2306:9:50
# text = Brer Rabbit say he can't set in saddle less he have bridle fer ter hol' by.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **set** | can | Brer |  |  | saddle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in saddle=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hol** |  | bridle |  |  |  |  |  | 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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