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title: "Den Brer Bull-frog, he gin ter git skeer'd, he did, en he up'n say: — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Bull-frog, he gin ter git skeer'd, he did, en he up'n say: Who acts: den, en up'n. 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 23

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"Den Brer Bull-frog, he gin ter git skeer'd, he did, en he up'n say:

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**Who acts:** den, en up'n · **What happens:** gin, up'n, say · **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 (den, en up'n), 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:pg2306:27:23
# text = "Den Brer Bull-frog, he gin ter git skeer'd, he did, en he up'n say:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	skeer	skeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gin** *in a quote* |  | den |  |  |  |  | ter git skeer | tree rules |
| 2 | **up'n** *in a quote* |  | den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | en up'n |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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