--- title: Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en by de time Miss Cow come long he had his head stickin' out, en his eyes look big ez Miss Sally's chany sassers. Who acts: Brer, den, eyes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/58/) [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/) / 58 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 58 Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en by de time Miss Cow come long he had his head stickin' out, en his eyes look big ez Miss Sally's chany sassers. **Who acts:** Brer, den, eyes · **What happens:** kep, dart, come, have out, look · **To what, where:** gainin en bimeby, head stickin, 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 (Brer, den, eyes), 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:pg2306:12:58 # text = Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en by de time Miss Cow come long he had his head stickin' out, en his eyes look big ez Miss Sally's chany sassers. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 kep kep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 gainin gainin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ', ', PART POS _ 6 dep _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 bimeby bimeby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 dart dart VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 brier brier NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 stickin stickin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 39 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 40 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 chany chany ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 sassers sasser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kep** | present | Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dart** | present | den | | | gainin en bimeby | | in a brier patch and en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bimeby=Trajectory | | 3 | **come** | present | den *not said here* | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have out** | past | den | den's head stickin | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stickin=Patient | | 5 | **look** | present | den's eyes | en | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sasser=Attribute | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/59/) - ↑ back to [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/)