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title: W'ile he sayin' his pra'rs over like a train er kyars runnin', ole B… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'ile he sayin' his pra'rs over like a train er kyars runnin', ole Brer Fox holler out: Who acts: crope. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 24

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W'ile he sayin' his pra'rs over like a train er kyars runnin', ole Brer Fox holler out:

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**Who acts:** crope · **What happens:** sayin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crope), 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:pg2306:19:24
# text = W'ile he sayin' his pra'rs over like a train er kyars runnin', ole Brer Fox holler out:
1	W'ile	W'ile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pra'rs	pra'r	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	kyars	kyar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	runnin	runnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PART	POS	_	13	dep	_	_
15	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sayin** |  | crope |  |  |  |  |  | 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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