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title: "BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder ee… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the church the other day. Who acts: BRER, deze doin, colored deacon. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things, with its
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 1

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"BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the church the other day.

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**Who acts:** BRER, deze doin, colored deacon · **What happens:** be, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BRER, deze doin, colored deacon), 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:pg2306:59:1
# text = "BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the church the other day.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	BRER	BRER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	heern	heern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eend	eend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	deacon	deacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | BRER |  |  |  |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | deze doin |  |  |  |  | out, y *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a colored deacon of the church |  |  |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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