--- title: Brer Rabbit sot down en scratch his head, he did, en bimeby he say t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit sot down en scratch his head, he did, en bimeby he say ter hisse'f dat he b'leeve he sorter drap 'roun' by Brer Fox house fer ter see how de lan' lay. Who acts: Rabbit sot, sot, b'leeve sorter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/40/) [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/) / [XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/) / 40 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 40 Brer Rabbit sot down en scratch his head, he did, en bimeby he say ter hisse'f dat he b'leeve he sorter drap 'roun' by Brer Fox house fer ter see how de lan' lay. **Who acts:** Rabbit sot, sot, b'leeve sorter · **What happens:** scratch, do, say, b'leeve, sorter, drap · **To what, where:** head, en bimeby, roun, de lan · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Rabbit sot, sot, b'leeve sorter), 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:pg2306:14:40 # text = Brer Rabbit sot down en scratch his head, he did, en bimeby he say ter hisse'f dat he b'leeve he sorter drap 'roun' by Brer Fox house fer ter see how de lan' lay. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 down down ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bimeby bimeby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 b'leeve b'leeve NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 30 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 36 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 lan lan NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | Rabbit sot down en | sot's head | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | sot | en bimeby | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sot | en bimeby *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **b'leeve** | | sot | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sorter** | | sot | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drap** | infinitive | b'leeve sorter | roun | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | infinitive | b'leeve sorter *not said here* | de lan | | | | by Brer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus | | 8 | **lay** | infinitive | b'leeve sorter *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/41/) - ↑ back to [XI. 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