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title: Jedge Buzzard, he riz en skimmed long fer ter see dat de race wuz ru… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Jedge Buzzard, he riz en skimmed long fer ter see dat de race wuz runned fa'r. Who acts: Jedge, de race wuz. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 31

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Jedge Buzzard, he riz en skimmed long fer ter see dat de race wuz runned fa'r.

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**Who acts:** Jedge, de race wuz · **What happens:** skim, see, runn · **To what, where:** dat, fa'r

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jedge, de race wuz), 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:pg2306:21:31
# text = Jedge Buzzard, he riz en skimmed long fer ter see dat de race wuz runned fa'r.
1	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	riz	riz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	skimmed	skim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	runned	runn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	fa'r	fa'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skim** | past | Jedge |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Jedge *not said here* | dat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **runn** | past | de race wuz | fa'r |  |  |  |  | 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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