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title: Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say: 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 46

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Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say:

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** stop, say · **To what, where:** cryin, hooin en · **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:pg2306:27:46
# text = Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say:
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cryin	cryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	boo	boo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hooin	hooin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PART	POS	_	18	dep	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | infinitive | Brer | Brer's cryin and en and hooin en |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cryin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Brer | hooin en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic |

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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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