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title: "But ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way wid 'im, en den he sot e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way wid 'im, en den he sot en study, ole Brer B'ar did, how he gwineter squench Brer Bull-frog. Who acts: ole Brer, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its depende
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 44

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"But ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way wid 'im, en den he sot en study, ole Brer B'ar did, how he gwineter squench Brer Bull-frog.

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**Who acts:** ole Brer, Brer · **What happens:** say, gwineter, make, do, frog · **To what, where:** way, en den · **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 (ole Brer, Brer), 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:pg2306:27:44
# text = "But ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way wid 'im, en den he sot en study, ole Brer B'ar did, how he gwineter squench Brer Bull-frog.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
18	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
29	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
30	squench	squench	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | ole Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gwineter** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | way |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset way=Beneficiary im=Product |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer | en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Eventuality |
| 5 | **frog** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | 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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