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title: "While he wuz layin' dar, Mr. Buzzard come floppin' 'long, en seein'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "While he wuz layin' dar, Mr. Buzzard come floppin' 'long, en seein' Brer Fox stretch out on de groun', he lit en view de premusses. Who acts: en, Mr., Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 34

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"While he wuz layin' dar, Mr. Buzzard come floppin' 'long, en seein' Brer Fox stretch out on de groun', he lit en view de premusses.

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**Who acts:** en, Mr., Brer · **What happens:** layin, come, stretch out, light · **To what, where:** floppin, en seein, view de premusses, de groun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, Mr., Brer), 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:pg2306:10:34
# text = "While he wuz layin' dar, Mr. Buzzard come floppin' 'long, en seein' Brer Fox stretch out on de groun', he lit en view de premusses.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	floppin	floppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	seein	seein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	premusses	premuss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **layin** *in a quote* |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Mr. | floppin |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location floppin=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch out** *in a quote* | present | Brer | en seein |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **light** *in a quote* | past | en | view de premusses |  | de groun |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent premuss=Product |

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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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