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title: Brer B'ar drap his axe, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his pa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer B'ar drap his axe, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his paw, en scoop ole Brer Bull-frog in des dis away." Who acts: Brer, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 11

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Brer B'ar drap his axe, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his paw, en scoop ole Brer Bull-frog in des dis away."

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**Who acts:** Brer, en · **What happens:** drap, do up, retch out, wi · **To what, where:** axe, en crope, paw

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en), 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:pg2306:27:11
# text = Brer B'ar drap his axe, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his paw, en scoop ole Brer Bull-frog in des dis away."
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	drap	drap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	retch	retch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	scoop	scoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | infinitive | Brer | Brer's axe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do up** | past | Brer | en crope |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crope=Eventuality |
| 3 | **retch out** | infinitive | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wi** | past | en *not said here* | Brer's paw |  |  |  | away *property* | 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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