--- title: "'Well, dar's a little hole roun' on de udder side er de tree,' sez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Well, dar's a little hole roun' on de udder side er de tree,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here so he could take up his stan' dar,' sezee, 'I'd drive dat squir'l out,' sezee. Who acts: dar, little hole roun, roun, Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/53/) [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/) / 53 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 53 "'Well, dar's a little hole roun' on de udder side er de tree,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here so he could take up his stan' dar,' sezee, 'I'd drive dat squir'l out,' sezee. **Who acts:** dar, little hole roun, roun, Den · **What happens:** be, say, take up, drive out · **To what, where:** little hole roun, udder side, Brer, dar, dat squir'l · **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 (dar, little hole roun, roun, Den), 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:pg2306:10:53 # text = "'Well, dar's a little hole roun' on de udder side er de tree,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here so he could take up his stan' dar,' sezee, 'I'd drive dat squir'l out,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Well well INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 de de ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 er er ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 de de PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 21 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 Tukkey Tukkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 33 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 list _ _ 34 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 52 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 squir'l squir'l NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 out out ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 57 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | dar | a little hole roun | | udder side de's tree | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a little hole roun | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **take up** *in a quote* | could | roun | roun's dar and sezee | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Theme | | 4 | **drive out** *in a quote* | would | Den | dat squir'l | | | | sezee *obl*; out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squir'l=Theme | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/54/) - ↑ back to [VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/)