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title: "'Much oblije, I'm middlin', Brer B'ar,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Much oblije, I'm middlin', Brer B'ar,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: wuz one season, Much oblije. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 20

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"'Much oblije, I'm middlin', Brer B'ar,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**Who acts:** wuz one season, Much oblije · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** middlin, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz one season, Much oblije), 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:pg2306:26:20
# text = "'Much oblije, I'm middlin', Brer B'ar,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oblije	oblije	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	middlin	middlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PART	POS	_	8	dep	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wuz one season *= season* | middlin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Much oblije and middlin | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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