--- title: "Co'se de talk fell on Brer Fox, en Miss Meadows en de gals make a g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Co'se de talk fell on Brer Fox, en Miss Meadows en de gals make a great 'miration 'bout w'at a gaily ridin'-hoss Brer Fox wuz, en dey make lots er fun, en laugh en giggle same like gals duz deze days. Who acts: Co'se, Miss Meadows, great miration, gaily ridin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/15/) [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/) / [X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/) / 15 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 15 "Co'se de talk fell on Brer Fox, en Miss Meadows en de gals make a great 'miration 'bout w'at a gaily ridin'-hoss Brer Fox wuz, en dey make lots er fun, en laugh en giggle same like gals duz deze days. **Who acts:** Co'se, Miss Meadows, great miration, gaily ridin, lots, fun · **What happens:** talk, fall, make, w'at, er, laugh · **To what, where:** en, lots, en giggle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Co'se, Miss Meadows, great miration, gaily ridin), 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:pg2306:13:15 # text = "Co'se de talk fell on Brer Fox, en Miss Meadows en de gals make a great 'miration 'bout w'at a gaily ridin'-hoss Brer Fox wuz, en dey make lots er fun, en laugh en giggle same like gals duz deze days. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Co'se Co'se PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 11 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 miration miration NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 gaily gaily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ridin ridin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 hoss hoss NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 list _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 36 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 37 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 er er VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 43 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 giggle giggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 46 like like SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 duz duz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 49 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | Co'se *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Co'se | | | | | on Brer Fox | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fox=Location | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Miss Meadows en de gals | en | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **w'at** *in a quote* | | a great miration | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | a gaily ridin and hoss and en dey | lots | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **er** *in a quote* | infinitive | lots *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | fun and en | en giggle | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **duz** *in a quote* | present | gals | | | | day | | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/16/) - ↑ back to [X. 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