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title: Mr. Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'roun' right smartually, he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'roun' right smartually, he did, but 'twant no use. Who acts: Mr.. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 27

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Mr. Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'roun' right smartually, he did, but 'twant no use.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** flap, do · **To what, where:** wings

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr.), 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:pg2306:11:27
# text = Mr. Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'roun' right smartually, he did, but 'twant no use.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flap	flap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	scramble	scramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	smartually	smartually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	twant	twant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | infinitive | Mr. | Mr.'s wings |  |  |  | twant  no use *obl*; smartually *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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