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title: "Den Brer B'ar, bein's his mouf 'gun ter water atter de sweetnin,' h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer B'ar, bein's his mouf 'gun ter water atter de sweetnin,' he up'n say he speck de candy's ripe, en off dey put atter it!" Who acts: gun, up'n. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 34

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"Den Brer B'ar, bein's his mouf 'gun ter water atter de sweetnin,' he up'n say he speck de candy's ripe, en off dey put atter it!"

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**Who acts:** gun, up'n · **What happens:** say, speck · **To what, where:** ripe 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, 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 (gun, up'n), 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:pg2306:29:34
# text = "Den Brer B'ar, bein's his mouf 'gun ter water atter de sweetnin,' he up'n say he speck de candy's ripe, en off dey put atter it!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	bein	bein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ter	t	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	sweetnin	sweetnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	speck	speck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	put	put	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	23	obl	_	_
33	atter	atter	X	NN	_	32	goeswith	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | gun |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | infinitive | up'n | de candy's ripe en |  |  |  |  | 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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