--- title: "Bimeby, one day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz fixin' fer ter call on Miss Co… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Bimeby, one day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz fixin' fer ter call on Miss Coon, he heerd a monstrus fuss en clatter up de big road, en 'mos' 'fo' he could fix his years fer ter lissen, Brer Wolf run in de do'. Who acts: fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Wolf. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Wolf), 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:pg2306:16:19 # text = "Bimeby, one day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz fixin' fer ter call on Miss Coon, he heerd a monstrus fuss en clatter up de big road, en 'mos' 'fo' he could fix his years fer ter lissen, Brer Wolf run in de do'. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 9 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 Coon Coon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 heerd heer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 nsubj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 monstrus monstrus NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 fuss fuss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 clatter clatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 de de ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 mos mos NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 40 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 amod _ _ 44 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 lissen lissen NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 52 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | wuz fixin *not said here* | | | | on Miss | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fixin=Recipient | | 2 | **heer** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | a fuss en | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **clatter up** *in a quote* | present | | big road | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | | 4 | **fix** *in a quote* | could | Rabbit | fer ter lissen | | | year | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lissen=Patient | | 5 | **run** *in a quote* | present | Brer Wolf | | | de | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in de=Trajectory | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Brer Wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/20/) - ↑ back to [XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/)