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title: Brer Rabbit say he can't ride widout bline bridle, kaze Brer Fox be… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Rabbit say he can't ride widout bline bridle, kaze Brer Fox be shyin' at stumps long de road, en fling 'im off. Who acts: Brer. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 52

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Brer Rabbit say he can't ride widout bline bridle, kaze Brer Fox be shyin' at stumps long de road, en fling 'im off.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** say, not ride, be, im off · **To what, where:** stumps, Fox shyin, en fling · **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), 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:pg2306:9:52
# text = Brer Rabbit say he can't ride widout bline bridle, kaze Brer Fox be shyin' at stumps long de road, en fling 'im off.
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	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	widout	widout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bline	bline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	shyin	shyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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** **ride** | can | Brer |  |  | stumps  long de road and en fling |  | widout bline bridle and kaze | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | Fox shyin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **im off** | participle |  | en fling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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