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title: "Nex' mile-pos' he jump, B'er Deer say: 'Hullo, B'er Cooter!' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nex' mile-pos' he jump, B'er Deer say: 'Hullo, B'er Cooter!' Who acts: nex, 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 88

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"Nex' mile-pos' he jump, B'er Deer say: 'Hullo, B'er Cooter!'

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**Who acts:** nex, B'er Deer · **What happens:** jump, say · **To what, where:** mile pos, Hullo · **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 (nex, B'er 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:pg2306:1:88
# text = "Nex' mile-pos' he jump, B'er Deer say: 'Hullo, B'er Cooter!'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hullo	hullo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** *in a quote* | infinitive | nex | mile pos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pos=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | B'er Deer | Hullo |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hullo=Topic |

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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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