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title: "'Mawnin'!' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee--'nice wedder dis mawnin',' sezee. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Mawnin'!' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee--'nice wedder dis mawnin',' sezee. Who acts: Mawnin. 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 8

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"'Mawnin'!' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee--'nice wedder dis mawnin',' sezee.

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**Who acts:** Mawnin · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Brer · **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 (Mawnin), 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:pg2306:5:8
# text = "'Mawnin'!' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee--'nice wedder dis mawnin',' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mawnin	Mawnin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	wedder	wedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Mawnin | Brer |  |  |  | 's nice dis mawnin and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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