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title: "Ole M'er Jackson, fines' confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ole M'er Jackson, fines' confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything he call fer come one, two by three. Who acts: Ole M'er, boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with it
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 6

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"Ole M'er Jackson, fines' confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything he call fer come one, two by three.

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**Who acts:** Ole M'er, boy · **What happens:** fall down, rule, call, come · **To what, where:** sta'rs fer, eve'ything, one · **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 (Ole M'er, boy), 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:pg2306:31:6
# text = "Ole M'er Jackson, fines' confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything he call fer come one, two by three.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	M'er	M'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Jackson	Jackson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	confraction	confraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	sta'rs	sta'r	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	Fray	Fray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	eve'ything	eve'ything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** *in a quote* | past | Ole M'er and fines's confraction | sta'rs fer to git satisfaction |  |  |  | big Bill *obl* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | boy |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present | boy | eve'ything *not said here* |  |  |  | f *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eve'ything=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | boy *not said here* | one |  |  |  | by three | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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