Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 34

"Co'se, honey, kaze in dem days Brer B'ar wuz a bee-hunter.

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. 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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Co'se	punct
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 honey	punct
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Co'se	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kaze	punct
6	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Co'se	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 days	compound
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kaze	nmod
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 days	appos
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	list
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hunter	det
14	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunter	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bee	punct
16	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Co'se	appos
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Co'se	punct

Pragmatics

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

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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