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title: De ve'y fus pas he make Brer Possum fetch a grin fum year ter year,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De ve'y fus pas he make Brer Possum fetch a grin fum year ter year, en keel over like he wuz dead. Who acts: De, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 16

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De ve'y fus pas he make Brer Possum fetch a grin fum year ter year, en keel over like he wuz dead.

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**Who acts:** De, Brer · **What happens:** make, fetch · **To what, where:** grin fum

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, Brer), 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:pg2306:6:16
# text = De ve'y fus pas he make Brer Possum fetch a grin fum year ter year, en keel over like he wuz dead.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ve'y	ve'y	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	fus	fus	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pas	pas	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	keel	keel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | De |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **fetch** | present | Brer | a grin fum  ter year and en keel like wuz |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fum=Theme |

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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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