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title: Den Brer Fox say he ride Brer Rabbit mos' up ter Miss Meadows's, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Fox say he ride Brer Rabbit mos' up ter Miss Meadows's, en den he could git down en walk de balance er de way. Who acts: Den, en den. 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 pra
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 55

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Den Brer Fox say he ride Brer Rabbit mos' up ter Miss Meadows's, en den he could git down en walk de balance er de way.

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**Who acts:** Den, en den · **What happens:** say, ride up, git down · **To what, where:** Brer mos, en walk · **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, en den), 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:pg2306:9:55
# text = Den Brer Fox say he ride Brer Rabbit mos' up ter Miss Meadows's, en den he could git down en walk de balance er de way.
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	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	mos	mo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
12	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ride up** | infinitive | den | Brer mos |  |  |  | ter Miss Meadows | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Theme |
| 3 | **git down** | could | en den | en walk and balance er and de way |  |  |  |  | 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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