--- title: "'Good evenin', fokes, I wish you mighty well,' sezee, en wid dat he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Good evenin', fokes, I wish you mighty well,' sezee, en wid dat he make a dash for Brer Rabbit, but Miss Meadows en de gals dey holler en squall, dey did, en Brer Tarrypin he got ter scramblin' roun' up dar on de shelf, en off he come, en blip he tuck Brer Fox on de back er de head. Who acts: even --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/28/) [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/) / 28 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 28 "'Good evenin', fokes, I wish you mighty well,' sezee, en wid dat he make a dash for Brer Rabbit, but Miss Meadows en de gals dey holler en squall, dey did, en Brer Tarrypin he got ter scramblin' roun' up dar on de shelf, en off he come, en blip he tuck Brer Fox on de back er de head. **Who acts:** evenin fokes, dat, gals, en · **What happens:** wish, make, do, get, come, tuck · **To what, where:** sezee, you, dash, Meadows en, ter scramblin, en 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 (evenin fokes, dat, gals, en), 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:pg2306:13:28 # text = "'Good evenin', fokes, I wish you mighty well,' sezee, en wid dat he make a dash for Brer Rabbit, but Miss Meadows en de gals dey holler en squall, dey did, en Brer Tarrypin he got ter scramblin' roun' up dar on de shelf, en off he come, en blip he tuck Brer Fox on de back er de head. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 evenin evenin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ', ', PART POS _ 4 dep _ _ 6 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 mighty mighty ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 9 advmod _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dash dash NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 compound _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 32 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 31 flat:foreign _ _ 33 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 34 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 35 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 squall squall NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 43 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 44 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 flat _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 47 ter ter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 scramblin scramblin NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 up up ADP RP _ 50 compound _ _ 53 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 54 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 56 compound _ _ 56 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 59 off off ADP IN _ 61 mark _ _ 60 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 61 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 blip blip NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 65 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 66 tuck tuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 parataxis _ _ 67 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 compound _ _ 68 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 69 on on ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ _ 71 back back ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 72 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 74 advmod _ _ 73 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 74 compound _ _ 74 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | evenin fokes | sezee | you | | | mighty *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | dat | a dash | | | | for Brer Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dash=Product for rabbit=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | gals dey en squall and dey | Meadows en *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | en | ter scramblin and roun and dar on de shelf and en and en blip | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scramblin=Stimulus | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | dat | en *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | | 6 | **tuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | dat | Brer Fox | | de | | de head *obl* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme on de=Trajectory | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/13/29/) - ↑ back to [X. 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