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title: He make his livin' findin' bee trees, en de way he fine um he plant… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He make his livin' findin' bee trees, en de way he fine um he plant 'im some 'simmon-trees, w'ich de bees dey'd come ter suck de 'simmons en den ole Brer B'ar he'd watch um whar dey'd go, en den he'd be mighty ap' fer ter come up wid um. Who acts: Brer, dey, ter, um whar dey. A sentence of «Uncle Re
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 35

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He make his livin' findin' bee trees, en de way he fine um he plant 'im some 'simmon-trees, w'ich de bees dey'd come ter suck de 'simmons en den ole Brer B'ar he'd watch um whar dey'd go, en den he'd be mighty ap' fer ter come up wid um.

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**Who acts:** Brer, dey, ter, um whar dey, fer ter · **What happens:** make, plant, come, suck, watch, go · **To what, where:** livin, de way, bees, de, en den, mighty ap

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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: who acts (Brer, dey, ter, um whar dey), 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:pg2306:30:35
# text = He make his livin' findin' bee trees, en de way he fine um he plant 'im some 'simmon-trees, w'ich de bees dey'd come ter suck de 'simmons en den ole Brer B'ar he'd watch um whar dey'd go, en den he'd be mighty ap' fer ter come up wid um.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	livin	livin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	findin	findin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	im	im	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	simmon	simmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	conj	_	_
29	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	parataxis	_	_
46	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
47	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
57	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	ap	AP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
60	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	61	amod	_	_
61	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nsubj	_	_
62	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	parataxis	_	_
63	up	up	ADP	RP	_	62	compound:prt	_	_
64	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | Brer | Brer's livin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livin=Product |
| 2 | **plant** |  | Brer | de way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | would | dey | bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bee=Theme |
| 4 | **suck** | infinitive | ter | de |  |  |  | simmons  en den ole *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent de=Source |
| 5 | **watch** | would | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | would | um whar dey | en den |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | would | Brer | mighty ap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **come up** | present | fer ter | wid um |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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