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title: "Den Brer B'ar laff, en make like he dunno, but he keep on talkin'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer B'ar laff, en make like he dunno, but he keep on talkin'. Who acts: Den. 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 26

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"Den Brer B'ar laff, en make like he dunno, but he keep on talkin'.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** make, keep · **To what, where:** talkin

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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), 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:pg2306:27:26
# text = "Den Brer B'ar laff, en make like he dunno, but he keep on talkin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	talkin	talkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Den and en |  |  |  |  | like dunno | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | den |  |  | talkin |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on talkin=Location |

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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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