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title: Lor', Brer Coon, you don't speck I done dat kaze I wuz 'feared, duz… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Lor', Brer Coon, you don't speck I done dat kaze I wuz 'feared, duz you?' sezee. ' Who acts: Brer Coon, I. 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 31

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Lor', Brer Coon, you don't speck I done dat kaze I wuz 'feared, duz you?' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** Brer Coon, I · **What happens:** not speck, do, wuz, fear · **To what, where:** dat kaze, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brer Coon, I), 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:pg2306:6:31
# text = Lor', Brer Coon, you don't speck I done dat kaze I wuz 'feared, duz you?' sezee. '
1	Lor	Lor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	speck	speck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	duz	duz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speck** | present · do-support | Lor's Brer Coon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | I | dat kaze |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaze=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wuz** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** | past |  | you |  |  |  | sezee *obl:unmarked* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |

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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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