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title: "So B'er Cooter say to B'er Deer: 'You has got mo longer legs dan I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "So B'er Cooter say to B'er Deer: 'You has got mo longer legs dan I has, but I will run you. Who acts: B'er Cooter, B'er Deer. 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 78

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"So B'er Cooter say to B'er Deer: 'You has got mo longer legs dan I has, but I will run you.

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**Who acts:** B'er Cooter, B'er Deer · **What happens:** say, get, have, run · **To what, where:** B'er Deer, longer legs · **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 (B'er Cooter, B'er Deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:80`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:78
# text = "So B'er Cooter say to B'er Deer: 'You has got mo longer legs dan I has, but I will run you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cooter	Cooter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
14	mo	mo	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	dan	dan	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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* *in a quote* | present | B'er Cooter |  | B'er Deer |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to deer=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | B'er Deer *= deer* | longer legs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | B'er Cooter *= cooter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | future | B'er Cooter *= cooter* | B'er Deer *= deer* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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