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title: "'Oh, ef he come, Brer Coon, I'm gwineter stan' by you,' sez Brer Po… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Oh, ef he come, Brer Coon, I'm gwineter stan' by you,' sez Brer Possum. ' Who acts: ef, Uncle Remus. 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 6

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"'Oh, ef he come, Brer Coon, I'm gwineter stan' by you,' sez Brer Possum. '

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**Who acts:** ef, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** come, be, say · **To what, where:** Brer, Brer Possum · **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 (ef, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:6:6
# text = "'Oh, ef he come, Brer Coon, I'm gwineter stan' by you,' sez Brer Possum. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
15	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
25	'	'	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 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | ef | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brer=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* |  |  |  |  | by you; stan *obl*; gwinet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* *not said here* | Brer Possum |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent possum=Topic |

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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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