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title: Dis sorter stunted Brer Fox, en w'en he gedder his 'membunce de mos'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis sorter stunted Brer Fox, en w'en he gedder his 'membunce de mos' he seed wuz a pot er greens turnt over in de fireplace, en a broke cheer. Who acts: Dis sorter, Fox, pot er. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, wi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 29

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Dis sorter stunted Brer Fox, en w'en he gedder his 'membunce de mos' he seed wuz a pot er greens turnt over in de fireplace, en a broke cheer.

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**Who acts:** Dis sorter, Fox, pot er · **What happens:** stunt, wuz, green · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, seed wuz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis sorter, Fox, pot er), 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:pg2306:13:29
# text = Dis sorter stunted Brer Fox, en w'en he gedder his 'membunce de mos' he seed wuz a pot er greens turnt over in de fireplace, en a broke cheer.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stunted	stunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gedder	gedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	membunce	membunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	mos	mo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	greens	green	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	turnt	turnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	broke	broke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stunt** | past | Dis sorter | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **green** | present | a pot er | mos's seed wuz *not said here* |  |  |  | turnt *property* | 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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