--- title: He went gallopin' 'long, he did, but he feel mighty fired out, en st… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: He went gallopin' 'long, he did, but he feel mighty fired out, en stiff in his jints, en he wuz mighty nigh dead for sumpin fer ter drink, en bimeby, w'en he got mos' home, he spied ole Miss Cow feedin' roun' in a fiel', he did, en he 'termin' fer ter try his han' wid 'er. Who acts: ez. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/5/) [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/) / 5 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 5 He went gallopin' 'long, he did, but he feel mighty fired out, en stiff in his jints, en he wuz mighty nigh dead for sumpin fer ter drink, en bimeby, w'en he got mos' home, he spied ole Miss Cow feedin' roun' in a fiel', he did, en he 'termin' fer ter try his han' wid 'er. **Who acts:** ez · **What happens:** go, do, feel, fire out, wuz, get · **To what, where:** jints, home, ole Miss Cow feedin, fiel, termin 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 (ez), 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:pg2306:12:5 # text = He went gallopin' 'long, he did, but he feel mighty fired out, en stiff in his jints, en he wuz mighty nigh dead for sumpin fer ter drink, en bimeby, w'en he got mos' home, he spied ole Miss Cow feedin' roun' in a fiel', he did, en he 'termin' fer ter try his han' wid 'er. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 gallopin gallopin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 14 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fired fire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 19 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 jints jint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wuz wuz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 sumpin sumpin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 33 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 bimeby bimeby NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 mos mo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 spied spy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 48 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 feedin feedin NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 53 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 fiel fiel NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ', ', PART POS _ 57 dep _ _ 59 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ _ 63 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 64 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 termin termin NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ _ 67 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 68 amod _ _ 68 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 nsubj _ _ 69 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 62 acl:relcl _ _ 70 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 73 punct _ _ 73 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 appos _ _ 74 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 75 er er INTJ UH _ 71 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | ez | | | | | gallopin, long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | ez | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | ez | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **fire out** | participle | ez *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wuz** | present | ez | ez's jints and en *not said here* | | | | mighty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | past | ez | mos's home | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus | | 7 | **spy** | past | ez | ole Miss Cow feedin | | a fiel and en | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feedin=Stimulus | | 8 | **do** | past | ez | a fiel and en *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiel=Eventuality | | 9 | **try** | present | ez | termin | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/6/) - ↑ back to [IX. 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