--- title: "Nex' time Brer Possum met Brer Coon, Brer Coon 'fuse ter 'spon' ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Nex' time Brer Possum met Brer Coon, Brer Coon 'fuse ter 'spon' ter his howdy, en dis make Brer Possum feel mighty bad, seein' ez how dey useter make so many 'scurshuns tergedder. Who acts: Brer, fuse ter, ez. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/) / 22 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 22 "Nex' time Brer Possum met Brer Coon, Brer Coon 'fuse ter 'spon' ter his howdy, en dis make Brer Possum feel mighty bad, seein' ez how dey useter make so many 'scurshuns tergedder. **Who acts:** Brer, fuse ter, ez · **What happens:** meet, spon, make, feel · **To what, where:** Brer, seein · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Brer, fuse ter, ez), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:6:22 # text = "Nex' time Brer Possum met Brer Coon, Brer Coon 'fuse ter 'spon' ter his howdy, en dis make Brer Possum feel mighty bad, seein' ez how dey useter make so many 'scurshuns tergedder. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Nex nex NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 9 Coon Coon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Coon Coon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 spon spon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ter ter ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 howdy howdy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 26 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 seein seein NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 36 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 useter useter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obj _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 scurshuns scurshun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 compound _ _ 43 tergedder tergedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | Brer Nex time | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spon** *in a quote* | | Brer's fuse ter | | | | | ter Brer's howdy | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Brer | Brer | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer *not said here* | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | ez | seein | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset many=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/23/) - ↑ back to [III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/)