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title: Brer Jeems Henry, he mounted Brer Plato an' rid 'im over de railin',… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Jeems Henry, he mounted Brer Plato an' rid 'im over de railin', an' den de preacher he start down fum de pulpit, an' des ez he wuz skippin' onter de platform a hym'-book kotch 'im in de bur er de year, an I be bless ef it didn't soun' like a bung-shell'd busted. Who acts: Brer, fum, hym, I. A s
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 19

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Brer Jeems Henry, he mounted Brer Plato an' rid 'im over de railin', an' den de preacher he start down fum de pulpit, an' des ez he wuz skippin' onter de platform a hym'-book kotch 'im in de bur er de year, an I be bless ef it didn't soun' like a bung-shell'd busted.

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**Who acts:** Brer, fum, hym, I · **What happens:** mount, start down, platform, kotch, be, not soun · **To what, where:** Brer Plato, de railin, bless ef

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, fum, hym, I), 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:pg2306:48:19
# text = Brer Jeems Henry, he mounted Brer Plato an' rid 'im over de railin', an' den de preacher he start down fum de pulpit, an' des ez he wuz skippin' onter de platform a hym'-book kotch 'im in de bur er de year, an I be bless ef it didn't soun' like a bung-shell'd busted.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Plato	Plato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	im	im	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	railin	railin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	de	de	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
27	de	de	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
33	ez	ez	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	skippin	skippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	onter	onter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	flat:foreign	_	_
40	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hym	hym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	parataxis	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	bur	bur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	compound	_	_
54	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	cop	_	_
59	bless	bless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	soun	soun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	72	punct	_	_
66	like	like	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
67	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
68	bung	bung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	'd	'd	PUNCT	HYPH	_	72	punct	_	_
72	busted	bust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	64	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | Brer | Brer Plato |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent plato=Theme railin=Destination |
| 2 | **start down** | infinitive | Brer | a de railin and a den *not said here* |  |  |  | de preacher | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railin=Eventuality |
| 3 | **platform** |  | fum de pulpit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kotch** |  | a hym |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | I | a bless ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **soun** | past · do-support | hym | a bless ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bust** | participle | hym *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a bung shell | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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