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title: Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog XXV. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog XXV. Who acts: Mr. Bear. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 23

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Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog XXV.

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**Who acts:** Mr. Bear · **What happens:** catch · **To what, where:** Old Frog XXV

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Bear), 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:pg2306:3:23
# text = Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog XXV.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	XXV	xxv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | Mr. Bear | Old Frog XXV |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent xxv=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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