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title: "But dar ole Brer B'ar hung, en ef his head ain't swunk, I speck he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But dar ole Brer B'ar hung, en ef his head ain't swunk, I speck he hangin' dar yit--dat w'at I speck." Who acts: dar ole 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 clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 52

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"But dar ole Brer B'ar hung, en ef his head ain't swunk, I speck he hangin' dar yit--dat w'at I speck."

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**Who acts:** dar ole Brer, up'n · **What happens:** hang, speck · **To what, where:** en ef, Brer, dat w'at

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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 (dar ole 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:pg2306:31:52
# text = "But dar ole Brer B'ar hung, en ef his head ain't swunk, I speck he hangin' dar yit--dat w'at I speck."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	swunk	swunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** *in a quote* | past | dar ole Brer | en ef |  |  |  | swunk *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient |
| 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | up'n | Brer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | up'n | dat w'at *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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