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title: "Co'se, Brer Bull-frog dunner w'at Brer B'ar drivin' at, but he know… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se, Brer Bull-frog dunner w'at Brer B'ar drivin' at, but he know sump'n hatter be done, en dat mighty soon, kaze Brer B'ar 'gun to snap his jaws tergedder en foam at de mouf, en Brer Bull-frog holler out: Who acts: gwine. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Ha
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 34

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"Co'se, Brer Bull-frog dunner w'at Brer B'ar drivin' at, but he know sump'n hatter be done, en dat mighty soon, kaze Brer B'ar 'gun to snap his jaws tergedder en foam at de mouf, en Brer Bull-frog holler out:

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**Who acts:** gwine · **What happens:** know, do, snap · **To what, where:** sump'n hatter, jaws · **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 (gwine), 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:pg2306:27:34
# text = "Co'se, Brer Bull-frog dunner w'at Brer B'ar drivin' at, but he know sump'n hatter be done, en dat mighty soon, kaze Brer B'ar 'gun to snap his jaws tergedder en foam at de mouf, en Brer Bull-frog holler out:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Bull	Bull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	drivin	drivin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	tergedder	tergedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	compound	_	_
43	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
47	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | gwine |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | sump'n hatter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **snap** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | gwine's jaws |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient foam=Result |

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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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