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title: "Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han,' en wink at de gals, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han,' en wink at de gals, en wid dat he gin a big juk, but Brer Tarrypin ain't budge. Who acts: dey, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 27

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"Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han,' en wink at de gals, en wid dat he gin a big juk, but Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.

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**Who acts:** dey, Brer · **What happens:** gin, not be · **To what, where:** big juk

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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 (dey, 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:pg2306:29:27
# text = "Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han,' en wink at de gals, en wid dat he gin a big juk, but Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrop	wrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gin	gin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	juk	juk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gin** *in a quote* | present | dey | a big juk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  | budge *property* | 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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