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title: Den de little bird settin' up in de tree he begin fer ter sing, en d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de little bird settin' up in de tree he begin fer ter sing, en dish yer's de song w'at he sing: Who acts: co'se. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 29

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Den de little bird settin' up in de tree he begin fer ter sing, en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:

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**Who acts:** co'se · **What happens:** begin, sing · **To what, where:** fer ter sing, de tree

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (co'se), 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:pg2306:25:29
# text = Den de little bird settin' up in de tree he begin fer ter sing, en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | co'se | fer ter sing and en dish 's yer |  | de tree |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* |  | co'se |  |  |  |  |  | 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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