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title: "Co'se, honey, kaze in dem days Brer B'ar wuz a bee-hunter. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se, honey, kaze in dem days Brer B'ar wuz a bee-hunter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 34

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"Co'se, honey, kaze in dem days Brer B'ar wuz a bee-hunter.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:30:34
# text = "Co'se, honey, kaze in dem days Brer B'ar wuz a bee-hunter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	list	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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