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title: Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enn… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enny swinkin', hit swunk too late fer ter he'p ole Brer B'ar. Who acts: Ole, de headedness hisse'f. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree a
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 18

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Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enny swinkin', hit swunk too late fer ter he'p ole Brer B'ar.

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**Who acts:** Ole, de headedness hisse'f · **What happens:** get, hit · **To what, where:** swunk

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, de headedness hisse'f), 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:pg2306:31:18
# text = Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enny swinkin', hit swunk too late fer ter he'p ole Brer B'ar.
1	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	headedness	headedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	enny	enny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	swinkin	swinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
21	swunk	swunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	he'p	he'p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Ole |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hit** | past | de headedness hisse'f | swunk |  |  |  | f, late *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swunk=Co-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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