--- title: But, bless yo' soul, honey, w'ile she wuz croppin' de grass she tuck… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: But, bless yo' soul, honey, w'ile she wuz croppin' de grass she tuck one mou'ful too menny, kaze w'en she hitch on ter de 'simmon tree agin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' in de fence cornder a watchin' un 'er. Who acts: you, Cow, de grass. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/44/) [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/) / [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rab…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/) / 44 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 44 But, bless yo' soul, honey, w'ile she wuz croppin' de grass she tuck one mou'ful too menny, kaze w'en she hitch on ter de 'simmon tree agin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' in de fence cornder a watchin' un 'er. **Who acts:** you, Cow, de grass · **What happens:** bless, wuz, tuck, hitch · **To what, where:** soul w'ile croppin, w'ile, one mou'ful, kaze w'en This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cow, de grass), 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:pg2306:12:44 # text = But, bless yo' soul, honey, w'ile she wuz croppin' de grass she tuck one mou'ful too menny, kaze w'en she hitch on ter de 'simmon tree agin, Brer Rabbit wuz settin' in de fence cornder a watchin' un 'er. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 w'ile w'ile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 croppin croppin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 16 compound _ _ 16 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tuck tuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 mou'ful mou'ful NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 menny menny NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hitch hitch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 simmon simmon ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 agin agin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 cornder cornder NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 watchin watchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 er er INTJ UH _ 48 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | soul w'ile croppin | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croppin=Theme | | 2 | **wuz** | present | Cow | w'ile *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tuck** | infinitive | de grass | one mou'ful and menny and kaze w'en | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mou'ful=Theme | | 4 | **hitch** | infinitive | Cow | kaze w'en *not said here* | | | | on ter de | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent w'en=Patient on de=Co-Patient | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/45/) - ↑ back to [IX. 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