--- title: Dey talk, en dey sing, en dey play on de peanner, de gals did, twel… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey talk, en dey sing, en dey play on de peanner, de gals did, twel bimeby hit come time fer Brer Rabbit fer to be gwine, en he tell um all good-by, en strut out to de hoss-rack same's ef he wuz de king er de patter- rollers,*1 en den he mount Brer Fox en ride off. Who acts: Dey talk, twel bimeby, b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/) / 21 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 21 Dey talk, en dey sing, en dey play on de peanner, de gals did, twel bimeby hit come time fer Brer Rabbit fer to be gwine, en he tell um all good-by, en strut out to de hoss-rack same's ef he wuz de king er de patter- rollers,\*1 en den he mount Brer Fox en ride off. **Who acts:** Dey talk, twel bimeby, bimeby, rack same ef, den, en den · **What happens:** do, hit, be, tell, de, er · **To what, where:** fer Rabbit fer, gwine, um, Brer Fox en · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey talk, twel bimeby, bimeby, rack same ef), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:10:21 # text = Dey talk, en dey sing, en dey play on de peanner, de gals did, twel bimeby hit come time fer Brer Rabbit fer to be gwine, en he tell um all good-by, en strut out to de hoss-rack same's ef he wuz de king er de patter- rollers,*1 en den he mount Brer Fox en ride off. 1 Dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 13 compound _ _ 13 peanner peanner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bimeby bimeby NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 come come ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 all all ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 strut strut NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 de de VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 46 hoss hoss NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 rack rack NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 49 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 53 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 54 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 ccomp _ _ 57 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 56 conj _ _ 58 patter patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ _ 60 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 * * PUNCT NFP _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ _ 64 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 mount mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 acl:relcl _ _ 68 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 69 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 71 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 72 off off ADP RP _ 71 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Dey talk and en and dey sing and dey play on de peanner | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hit** | past | twel bimeby | fer Rabbit fer | | | | by en strut; out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fer=Theme by strut=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | twel bimeby *not said here* | gwine and en | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | bimeby | um | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient | | 5 | **de** | to-infinitive | twel bimeby *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **er** | | rack same ef | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mount** | past | den | Brer Fox en | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient | | 8 | **ride off** | present | en den | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/22/) - ↑ back to [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/)