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title: Brer Tarrypin, he crope under de bed, he did, en got behime de cloze… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Tarrypin, he crope under de bed, he did, en got behime de cloze-chist, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey run out in de yard. Who acts: Brer, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 34

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Brer Tarrypin, he crope under de bed, he did, en got behime de cloze-chist, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey run out in de yard.

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**Who acts:** Brer, en · **What happens:** crope, do, get, run out · **To what, where:** de bed, de cloze chist, en gals

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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 (Brer, en), 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:pg2306:13:34
# text = Brer Tarrypin, he crope under de bed, he did, en got behime de cloze-chist, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey run out in de yard.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	behime	behime	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	chist	chist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	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 | **crope** |  | Brer |  |  | de bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | en | de cloze chist and en  en gals and dey |  |  |  | behime *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chist=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run out** | participle |  | en gals and dey *not said here* |  |  |  | in de yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Trajectory |

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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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