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title: Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im--some say he didn't. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im--some say he didn't. Who acts: Some, long en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 42

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Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im--some say he didn't.

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**Who acts:** Some, long en, en · **What happens:** say, come, loose, not do · **To what, where:** Judge, im · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, long en, en), 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:pg2306:5:42
# text = Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im--some say he didn't.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Judge	Judge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loosed	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | Judge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **loose** | past | long en | im |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **do** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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