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title: When he git dar he lay Brer Bullfrog down on de rock, en Brer Bull-f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: When he git dar he lay Brer Bullfrog down on de rock, en Brer Bull-frog make like he lookin' 'roun' fer his folks. Who acts: en, git dar, Brer Bull frog. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 49

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When he git dar he lay Brer Bullfrog down on de rock, en Brer Bull-frog make like he lookin' 'roun' fer his folks.

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**Who acts:** en, git dar, Brer Bull frog · **What happens:** dar, lie down, make · **To what, where:** Brer, de rock, en

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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, git dar, Brer Bull frog), 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:pg2306:27:49
# text = When he git dar he lay Brer Bullfrog down on de rock, en Brer Bull-frog make like he lookin' 'roun' fer his folks.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Bullfrog	Bullfrog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dar** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | git dar | Brer |  | de rock and en |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | Brer Bull frog | en *not said here* |  |  |  | f *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product |

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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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