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title: Den Mr. Dog, he sail inter Brer Coon, en right dar's whar he drap hi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Mr. Dog, he sail inter Brer Coon, en right dar's whar he drap his money purse, kaze Brer Coon wuz cut out fer dat kinder bizness, en he fa'rly wipe up de face er de yeth wid 'im. Who acts: Den, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possu
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 17

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Den Mr. Dog, he sail inter Brer Coon, en right dar's whar he drap his money purse, kaze Brer Coon wuz cut out fer dat kinder bizness, en he fa'rly wipe up de face er de yeth wid 'im.

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**Who acts:** Den, en · **What happens:** sail, drap, cut out, wipe up · **To what, where:** whar, face er

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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 (Den, 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:pg2306:6:17
# text = Den Mr. Dog, he sail inter Brer Coon, en right dar's whar he drap his money purse, kaze Brer Coon wuz cut out fer dat kinder bizness, en he fa'rly wipe up de face er de yeth wid 'im.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
9	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	fa'rly	fa'rly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	flat:foreign	_	_
42	yeth	yeth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	'	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** |  | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drap** | present | en | dar's whar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wipe up** | infinitive | en | de's face er |  |  |  | fa'rly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent im=Source |

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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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