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title: Brer Possum sorter laugh 'round de cornders un his mouf. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Brer Possum sorter laugh 'round de cornders un his mouf. 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 5

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Brer Possum sorter laugh 'round de cornders un his mouf.

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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:pg2306:6:5
# text = Brer Possum sorter laugh 'round de cornders un his mouf.
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	cornders	cornder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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