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title: "One time B'er Deer an' B'er Cooter (Terrapin) was courtin', and de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One time B'er Deer an' B'er Cooter (Terrapin) was courtin', and de lady did bin lub B'er Deer mo' so dan B'er Cooter. Who acts: B'er Cooter, courtin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 75

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"One time B'er Deer an' B'er Cooter (Terrapin) was courtin', and de lady did bin lub B'er Deer mo' so dan B'er Cooter.

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**Who acts:** B'er Cooter, courtin · **What happens:** be, bin · **To what, where:** courtin, lub

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (B'er Cooter, courtin), 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:pg2306:1:75
# text = "One time B'er Deer an' B'er Cooter (Terrapin) was courtin', and de lady did bin lub B'er Deer mo' so dan B'er Cooter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	courtin	courtin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	lub	lub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | a B'er Cooter | courtin and de lady |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin** *in a quote* | past · do-support | courtin and de lady | lub |  |  |  | dan Cooter *obl* | 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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