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title: So de young lady say to B'er Deer and B'er Cooter bofe dat dey mus'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So de young lady say to B'er Deer and B'er Cooter bofe dat dey mus' hab a ten-mile race, an de one dat beats, she will go marry him. Who acts: de young lady, de one dat, lady. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 77

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So de young lady say to B'er Deer and B'er Cooter bofe dat dey mus' hab a ten-mile race, an de one dat beats, she will go marry him.

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**Who acts:** de young lady, de one dat, lady · **What happens:** say, beat, go, marry · **To what, where:** B'er, dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (de young lady, de one dat, lady), 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:pg2306:1:77
# text = So de young lady say to B'er Deer and B'er Cooter bofe dat dey mus' hab a ten-mile race, an de one dat beats, she will go marry him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | de young lady |  | B'er and B'er |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to b'er=Recipient |
| 2 | **beat** | present | a de one dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | future | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **marry** | infinitive | lady *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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