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title: "Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er Cooter at de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er Cooter at de fus mile-pos', wey dey was to start fum. Who acts: 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 81

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"Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er Cooter at de fus mile-pos', wey dey was to start fum.

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**Who acts:** deer · **What happens:** meet, be, start · **To what, where:** mornin, de, fum

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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 (deer), 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:pg2306:1:81
# text = "Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er Cooter at de fus mile-pos', wey dey was to start fum.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	obl	_	_
18	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	',	',	PART	POS	_	21	dep	_	_
23	wey	wey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past · do-support | deer | that mornin at nine o'clock |  | de |  | B'er Deer *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooter=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | deer *not said here* | fum |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fum=Eventuality |

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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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