--- title: "En Mr. Buzzard, he come steppin' up, he did, same ez ef he wer tred… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "En Mr. Buzzard, he come steppin' up, he did, same ez ef he wer treddin' on kurkle-burs, en he stick his head in de hole; en no sooner did he done dat dan Brer Fox grab 'im. Who acts: Mr., same ez ef, EF, dan. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/26/) [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/) / [VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/) / 26 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 26 "En Mr. Buzzard, he come steppin' up, he did, same ez ef he wer treddin' on kurkle-burs, en he stick his head in de hole; en no sooner did he done dat dan Brer Fox grab 'im. **Who acts:** Mr., same ez ef, EF, dan · **What happens:** come up, do, treddin, stick, grab · **To what, where:** steppin, En Buzzard, kurkle burs, head, de hole, im This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., same ez ef, EF, dan), 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:pg2306:11:26 # text = "En Mr. Buzzard, he come steppin' up, he did, same ez ef he wer treddin' on kurkle-burs, en he stick his head in de hole; en no sooner did he done dat dan Brer Fox grab 'im. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 steppin steppin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 wer w ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 treddin treddin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 kurkle kurkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 burs bur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 37 no no ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 39 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 43 dan dan X FW Foreign=Yes 46 nsubj _ _ 44 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 45 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 grab grab NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 im im PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** *in a quote* | present | Mr. | steppin | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steppin=Theme | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Mr. | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **treddin** *in a quote* | | same ez ef | En Buzzard Mr. *not said here* | | kurkle burs and en | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stick** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mr. | Mr.'s head | | de hole | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hole=Destination | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | EF | im | | | | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | | 6 | **grab** *in a quote* | | dan | | | | | | tree rules | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/11/27/) - ↑ back to [VIII. 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