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title: Brer B'ar, he tuck a notion dat ole Brer Bull-frog wuz de man w'at f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer B'ar, he tuck a notion dat ole Brer Bull-frog wuz de man w'at fool 'im, en he say dat he'd come up wid 'im ef 'twuz a year atterwuds. 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 tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 9

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Brer B'ar, he tuck a notion dat ole Brer Bull-frog wuz de man w'at fool 'im, en he say dat he'd come up wid 'im ef 'twuz a year atterwuds.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** tuck, say, come up · **To what, where:** notion, dat, wid im ef · **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:pg2306:27:9
# text = Brer B'ar, he tuck a notion dat ole Brer Bull-frog wuz de man w'at fool 'im, en he say dat he'd come up wid 'im ef 'twuz a year atterwuds.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
11	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	im	im	X	FW	_	33	compound	_	_
33	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	twuz	twuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | Brer | a notion |  |  |  | dat ole Brer frog wuz and en | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent notion=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer | dat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |
| 3 | **come up** | would | Brer | wid im ef and twuz |  |  |  | a year atterwuds *obl:unmarked* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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