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title: B'er Cooter say: 'Hullo, B'er Deer! you dere too?' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: B'er Cooter say: 'Hullo, B'er Deer! you dere too?' Who acts: B'er Cooter, Hullo. 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 89

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B'er Cooter say: 'Hullo, B'er Deer! you dere too?'

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**Who acts:** B'er Cooter, Hullo · **What happens:** say, dere · **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, Hullo), 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:pg2306:1:89
# text = B'er Cooter say: 'Hullo, B'er Deer! you dere too?'
1	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hullo	hullo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | B'er Cooter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dere** |  | Hullo |  |  |  |  |  | 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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