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title: I hope dey er well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some biznes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I hope dey er well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w'at'll las' you a mighty long time.' Who acts: I, you, Brer frog, w'at. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 17

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I hope dey er well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w'at'll las' you a mighty long time.'

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**Who acts:** I, you, Brer frog, w'at · **What happens:** hope, get, wi, time · **To what, where:** dey, bizness, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you, Brer frog, w'at), 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:pg2306:27:17
# text = I hope dey er well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w'at'll las' you a mighty long time.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	er	er	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	Bull	Bull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
23	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I | dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | you | some bizness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bizness=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wi** | past | Brer frog and kaze dis day | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **time** | future | w'at |  |  |  |  |  | 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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