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title: "Tree stan' high, but honey mighty sweet-- Watch dem bees wid stinge… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tree stan' high, but honey mighty sweet-- Watch dem bees wid stingers on der feet.' Who acts: honey. 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 51

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"Tree stan' high, but honey mighty sweet-- Watch dem bees wid stingers on der feet.'

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**Who acts:** honey · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** dem bees

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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 (honey), 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:pg2306:31:51
# text = "Tree stan' high, but honey mighty sweet-- Watch dem bees wid stingers on der feet.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stingers	stinger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | honey | dem bees and wid stingers on der feet |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=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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