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title: "So B'er Cooter went an' git nine er his fam'ly, an' put one at eber… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "So B'er Cooter went an' git nine er his fam'ly, an' put one at ebery mile-pos', and he hisse'f, what was to run wid B'er Deer, he was right in front of de young lady's do', in de broom-grass. Who acts: B'er Cooter, Cooter, hisse'f. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chan
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 80

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"So B'er Cooter went an' git nine er his fam'ly, an' put one at ebery mile-pos', and he hisse'f, what was to run wid B'er Deer, he was right in front of de young lady's do', in de broom-grass.

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**Who acts:** B'er Cooter, Cooter, hisse'f · **What happens:** go, put, hisse'f, run, be · **To what, where:** git, de broom grass, one, ebery mile pos, wid, front · **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, Cooter, hisse'f), 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:pg2306:1:80
# text = "So B'er Cooter went an' git nine er his fam'ly, an' put one at ebery mile-pos', and he hisse'f, what was to run wid B'er Deer, he was right in front of de young lady's do', in de broom-grass.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	er	er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fam'ly	fam'ly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	ebery	ebery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
50	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | B'er Cooter | a git |  | de broom grass |  | er Cooter's fam'ly | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in grass=Location |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one |  | ebery mile pos |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme at pos=Destination |
| 3 | **hisse'f** *in a quote* |  | Cooter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | past | a hisse'f | wid |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wid=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Cooter |  |  | front of de young lady's do |  | right *property* | 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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