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title: "Eve'y now en den Brer Possum think he year Brer B'ar comin', but he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Eve'y now en den Brer Possum think he year Brer B'ar comin', but he keep on sayin', sezee: Who acts: Brer. 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 38

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"Eve'y now en den Brer Possum think he year Brer B'ar comin', but he keep on sayin', sezee:

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** think, year, keep · **To what, where:** sayin sezee

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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), 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:pg2306:30:38
# text = "Eve'y now en den Brer Possum think he year Brer B'ar comin', but he keep on sayin', sezee:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eve'y	Eve'y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PART	POS	_	19	dep	_	_
21	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Brer  Eve'y en den |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **year** *in a quote* |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Brer |  |  | sayin sezee |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sezee=Location |

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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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