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title: "Den Brer Possum he make triul, en Brer Coon, en all de balance un u… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Possum he make triul, en Brer Coon, en all de balance un um 'cep' Brer Tarrypin, en he 'low dat he got a crick in his neck. Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 29

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"Den Brer Possum he make triul, en Brer Coon, en all de balance un um 'cep' Brer Tarrypin, en he 'low dat he got a crick in his neck.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** make, get · **To what, where:** triul, crick, neck

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg2306:33:29
# text = "Den Brer Possum he make triul, en Brer Coon, en all de balance un um 'cep' Brer Tarrypin, en he 'low dat he got a crick in his neck.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	triul	triul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cep	cep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	crick	crick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Den | triul and en and en |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triul=Product |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | den | a crick |  | den's neck |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crick=Stimulus |

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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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