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title: "'Howdy, Brer Bull-frog, howdy! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Howdy, Brer Bull-frog, howdy! 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 15

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"'Howdy, Brer Bull-frog, howdy!

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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: 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:pg2306:27:15
# text = "'Howdy, Brer Bull-frog, howdy!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Howdy	Howdy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Bull	Bull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	howdy	howdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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