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title: Brer Tarrypin wuz at de bottom er de pon', en he talk back, he did,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Tarrypin wuz at de bottom er de pon', en he talk back, he did, in bubbles--I- doom-er-ker-kum-mer-ker! Who acts: wuz, Brer wuz, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 16

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Brer Tarrypin wuz at de bottom er de pon', en he talk back, he did, in bubbles--I- doom-er-ker-kum-mer-ker!

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**Who acts:** wuz, Brer wuz, I · **What happens:** talk back, do, ker · **To what, where:** de pon en, bubbles

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz, Brer wuz, I), 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:pg2306:17:16
# text = Brer Tarrypin wuz at de bottom er de pon', en he talk back, he did, in bubbles--I- doom-er-ker-kum-mer-ker!
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
9	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PART	POS	_	9	dep	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ker	ker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	kum	kum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	mer	mer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ker	ker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk back** | infinitive | wuz | de pon en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer wuz at de bottom er and de pon en |  |  | bubbles |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ker** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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