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title: Bimeby, one day wiles he wuz gwine 'long de road, old Brer Wolf come… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, one day wiles he wuz gwine 'long de road, old Brer Wolf come up wid 'im. Who acts: Bimeby, old Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 10

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Bimeby, one day wiles he wuz gwine 'long de road, old Brer Wolf come up wid 'im.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, old Brer · **What happens:** wile, gwine, come up · **To what, where:** im

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, old Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:14:10
# text = Bimeby, one day wiles he wuz gwine 'long de road, old Brer Wolf come up wid 'im.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wiles	wile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	im	im	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wile** | present | Bimeby |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gwine** |  | Bimeby |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come up** | present | old Brer | im |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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