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title: "Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but 'twan't no use. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but 'twan't no use. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 27

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"Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but 'twan't no use.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** beg · **To what, where:** en beg

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:15:27
# text = "Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but 'twan't no use.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | Brer | en beg |  |  |  | twa  no use *obl* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent beg=Recipient |

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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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