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title: One day, atter he bin fool by ole Brer Tarrypin, Brer Rabbit wuz set… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, atter he bin fool by ole Brer Tarrypin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' down in de woods studyin' how he wuz gwineter git even. Who acts: dey, wuz settin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 26

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One day, atter he bin fool by ole Brer Tarrypin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' down in de woods studyin' how he wuz gwineter git even.

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**Who acts:** dey, wuz settin · **What happens:** bin, studyin, wuz · **To what, where:** fool, ole Brer, gwineter git

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, wuz settin), 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:pg2306:22:26
# text = One day, atter he bin fool by ole Brer Tarrypin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' down in de woods studyin' how he wuz gwineter git even.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	studyin	studyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | dey | fool |  |  | day | by ole Brer and Brer | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 2 | **studyin** |  | wuz settin | ole Brer and Brer *not said here* |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wuz** | present | dey | gwineter git |  |  |  |  | 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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