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title: He know he can't drown 'im, en he ain't got no fier fer ter bu'n 'im… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He know he can't drown 'im, en he ain't got no fier fer ter bu'n 'im, en he git mighty pestered. Who acts: 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 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 45

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He know he can't drown 'im, en he ain't got no fier fer ter bu'n 'im, en he git mighty pestered.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** know, not drown, not get, pester · **To what, where:** im, Brer · **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 (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:pg2306:27:45
# text = He know he can't drown 'im, en he ain't got no fier fer ter bu'n 'im, en he git mighty pestered.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
16	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bu'n	bu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pestered	pester	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **drown** | can | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **get** | present · passive | Brer | im and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bu'n=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pester** | participle · passive |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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