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title: "Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf. Who acts: en. 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 38

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"Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** chomp · **To what, where:** toofies, de mouf

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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 (en), 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:pg2306:27:38
# text = "Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chomp	chomp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	toofies	toofy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chomp** *in a quote* | present | en | en's toofies |  | de mouf |  |  | 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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