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title: Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 6

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Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** meet, gwine · **To what, where:** possum, de road

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:43:6
# text = Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine?
1	Met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Bre	Bre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past |  | a possum |  | de road and Bre's Possum and whar and gwine |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **gwine** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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