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title: Dis sorter 'track Brer Fox 'tenshun, en he look at de tattlin' bird,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis sorter 'track Brer Fox 'tenshun, en he look at de tattlin' bird, en de bird he keep on callin': Who acts: tenshun, Jack. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 61

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Dis sorter 'track Brer Fox 'tenshun, en he look at de tattlin' bird, en de bird he keep on callin':

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**Who acts:** tenshun, Jack · **What happens:** look, keep · **To what, where:** de bird, callin

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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 (tenshun, Jack), 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:pg2306:22:61
# text = Dis sorter 'track Brer Fox 'tenshun, en he look at de tattlin' bird, en de bird he keep on callin':
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tenshun	tenshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	tattlin	tattlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	callin	callin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Brer  sorter track's tenshun and en |  |  |  |  | at de tattlin and bird and en and de bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tattlin=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Jack | de bird *not said here* |  | callin |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on callin=Location |

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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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