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title: Miss Brune wuz Brer B'ar's ole 'oman, en Miss Brindle wuz his gal. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Brune wuz Brer B'ar's ole 'oman, en Miss Brindle wuz his gal. Who acts: ole oman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 33

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Miss Brune wuz Brer B'ar's ole 'oman, en Miss Brindle wuz his gal.

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**Who acts:** ole oman · **What happens:** wuz · **To what, where:** gal

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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 oman), 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:pg2306:31:33
# text = Miss Brune wuz Brer B'ar's ole 'oman, en Miss Brindle wuz his gal.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Brune	Brune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Brindle	Brindle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** | present | Brer B'ar  Brune wuz's ole oman and en | B'ar's gal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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