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title: Well, 'twa'n't long 'fo' yer come Mr. Man, broozin' 'roun', en he ai… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, 'twa'n't long 'fo' yer come Mr. Man, broozin' 'roun', en he ain't no sooner see ole Brer Rabbit dan he smack his han's tergedder en holler out: Who acts: yer, man, han. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, wit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 20

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Well, 'twa'n't long 'fo' yer come Mr. Man, broozin' 'roun', en he ain't no sooner see ole Brer Rabbit dan he smack his han's tergedder en holler out:

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**Who acts:** yer, man, han · **What happens:** come, not see, smack out, holler · **To what, where:** Mr. Man, ole Brer Rabbit dan, en holler

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yer, man, han), 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:pg2306:32:20
# text = Well, 'twa'n't long 'fo' yer come Mr. Man, broozin' 'roun', en he ain't no sooner see ole Brer Rabbit dan he smack his han's tergedder en holler out:
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	twa'	twa'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	broozin	broozin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PART	POS	_	18	dep	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	smack	smack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | yer | Mr. Man |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | infinitive | yer *not said here* | ole Brer Rabbit dan |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dan=Stimulus |
| 3 | **smack out** | past | man | man's han's en holler |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Patient |
| 4 | **holler** |  | man's han |  |  |  |  |  | nom holler «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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