--- title: Brer Tarrypin done heerd 'im comin', en he 'low ter hisse'f dat he'd… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Tarrypin done heerd 'im comin', en he 'low ter hisse'f dat he'd sorter keep one eye open; but Brer Fox wuz monstus perlite, en he open up de confab, he did, like he ain't see Brer Tarrypin sence de las' freshit. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/2/) [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/) / [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/) / 2 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 2 Brer Tarrypin done heerd 'im comin', en he 'low ter hisse'f dat he'd sorter keep one eye open; but Brer Fox wuz monstus perlite, en he open up de confab, he did, like he ain't see Brer Tarrypin sence de las' freshit. **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** keep, open up, not be · **To what, where:** one eye, en This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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:pg2306:15:2 # text = Brer Tarrypin done heerd 'im comin', en he 'low ter hisse'f dat he'd sorter keep one eye open; but Brer Fox wuz monstus perlite, en he open up de confab, he did, like he ain't see Brer Tarrypin sence de las' freshit. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 heerd heerd NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 im im X FW _ 9 compound _ _ 7 comin comin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ', ', PART POS _ 7 dep _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 sorter sorter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 26 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 monstus monstus NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 perlite perlite NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 de de ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 confab confab NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 like like SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 44 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 46 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ _ 48 sence sence NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 45 obj _ _ 50 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' 's PART POS _ 50 case _ _ 52 freshit freshit NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | infinitive | | one eye | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **open up** | present | Brer | en *not said here* | | | | de confab | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | Brer | | | | | see *property* | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/3/) - ↑ back to [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/)