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title: W'at wuz dey fer ter be skeered un?' sezee. ' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'at wuz dey fer ter be skeered un?' sezee. ' 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 33

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W'at wuz dey fer ter be skeered un?' sezee. '

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**What happens:** skeer · **To what, where:** W'at fer ter

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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:pg2306:6:33
# text = W'at wuz dey fer ter be skeered un?' sezee. '
1	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	skeered	skeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skeer** | infinitive · passive |  | W'at fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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