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title: "Den Brer Possum git mighty mad. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Possum git mighty mad. 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 26

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"Den Brer Possum git mighty mad.

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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: 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:pg2306:6:26
# text = "Den Brer Possum git mighty mad.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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