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title: "Co'se Brer Rabbit know de game dat Brer Fox wuz fixin' fer ter play… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se Brer Rabbit know de game dat Brer Fox wuz fixin' fer ter play, en he 'termin' fer ter outdo 'im, en by de time he koam his ha'r en twis' his mustarsh, en sorter rig up, yer come Brer Fox, saddle en bridle on, en lookin' ez peart ez a circus pony. Who acts: Fox, fer ter, ter, mustarsh. A sente
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 57

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"Co'se Brer Rabbit know de game dat Brer Fox wuz fixin' fer ter play, en he 'termin' fer ter outdo 'im, en by de time he koam his ha'r en twis' his mustarsh, en sorter rig up, yer come Brer Fox, saddle en bridle on, en lookin' ez peart ez a circus pony.

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**Who acts:** Fox, fer ter, ter, mustarsh · **What happens:** know, termin, outdo, koam, rig up, come · **To what, where:** Co'se, im, ha'r en twis, Brer Fox, en bridle

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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 (Fox, fer ter, ter, mustarsh), 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:pg2306:9:57
# text = "Co'se Brer Rabbit know de game dat Brer Fox wuz fixin' fer ter play, en he 'termin' fer ter outdo 'im, en by de time he koam his ha'r en twis' his mustarsh, en sorter rig up, yer come Brer Fox, saddle en bridle on, en lookin' ez peart ez a circus pony.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fixin	fixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	termin	termin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	outdo	outdo	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	koam	koam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	ha'r	ha'r	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	twis	twi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	mustarsh	mustarsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	rig	rig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	yer	yer	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
50	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	saddle	saddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
54	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	_
61	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	peart	peart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	_
63	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	62	dep	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	circus	circus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  | Co'se |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **termin** *in a quote* |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **outdo** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | im and en by de time |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot im=Theme |
| 4 | **koam** *in a quote* | past | ter | ter's ha'r en twis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rig up** *in a quote* | present | ter's mustarsh and en sorter | ter's ha'r en twis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=Theme |
| 7 | **saddle on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | en bridle |  |  |  | en lookin *obl* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bridle=Destination |

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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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