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title: Dey stan' 'roun' en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey stan' 'roun' en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee: Who acts: roun, Brer, up'n. 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 46

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Dey stan' 'roun' en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** roun, Brer, up'n · **What happens:** do, up'n, say · **To what, where:** twel bimeby, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (roun, Brer, up'n), 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:pg2306:31:46
# text = Dey stan' 'roun' en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	biggity	biggity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dey stan's roun and en talk biggity and dey | twel bimeby |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality |
| 2 | **up'n** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | up'n | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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