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title: "Jedge B'ar come long nex' day," replied Uncle Remus, "en he fine so… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Jedge B'ar come long nex' day," replied Uncle Remus, "en he fine some fedders, en fum dat word went roun' dat ole man Squinch Owl done kotch nudder watzizname." Who acts: Jedge, Uncle, dat word, ole man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate o
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 75

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"Jedge B'ar come long nex' day," replied Uncle Remus, "en he fine some fedders, en fum dat word went roun' dat ole man Squinch Owl done kotch nudder watzizname."

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**Who acts:** Jedge, Uncle, dat word, ole man · **What happens:** come, reply, fine, fum, go, do · **To what, where:** fedders, roun, kotch nudder watzizname · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jedge, Uncle, dat word, ole man), 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:pg2306:22:75
# text = "Jedge B'ar come long nex' day," replied Uncle Remus, "en he fine some fedders, en fum dat word went roun' dat ole man Squinch Owl done kotch nudder watzizname."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	fedders	fedder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	Squinch	Squinch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	watzizname	watzizname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Jedge |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fine** *in a quote* | past | Uncle | some fedders |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fedder=Recipient |
| 4 | **fum** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | dat word | roun |  |  |  | that ole man *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | that ole man *not said here* | kotch nudder watzizname |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watzizname=Eventuality |

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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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