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title: "BRER TARRYPIN wuz de out'nes' man," said Uncle Remus, rubbing his h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "BRER TARRYPIN wuz de out'nes' man," said Uncle Remus, rubbing his hands together contemplatively, and chuckling to himself in a very significant manner; "he wuz de out'nes' man er de whole gang. Who acts: BRER, Remus, er. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harri
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 1

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"BRER TARRYPIN wuz de out'nes' man," said Uncle Remus, rubbing his hands together contemplatively, and chuckling to himself in a very significant manner; "he wuz de out'nes' man er de whole gang.

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**Who acts:** BRER, Remus, er · **What happens:** say, rub, chuckle, wuz, gang · **To what, where:** hands, Remus, significant manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BRER, Remus, er), 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:pg2306:29:1
# text = "BRER TARRYPIN wuz de out'nes' man," said Uncle Remus, rubbing his hands together contemplatively, and chuckling to himself in a very significant manner; "he wuz de out'nes' man er de whole gang.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	BRER	BRER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	TARRYPIN	TARRYPIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	out'nes	out'ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	contemplatively	contemplatively	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
35	out'nes	out'ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	er	er	PROPN	FW	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	flat:foreign	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | BRER and wuz de out'nes's man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund | BRER and wuz de out'nes's man *not said here* | Remus's hands |  |  |  | contemplatively, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **chuckle** | gerund | BRER and wuz de out'nes's man *not said here* |  | Remus | a significant manner |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **wuz** *in a quote* |  | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **gang** *in a quote* |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | 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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