--- title: "'I'm bo'in' little holes so you kin get bref, Brer Wolf.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'I'm bo'in' little holes so you kin get bref, Brer Wolf.' Who acts: Tobacco, little holes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/44/) [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/) / [XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/) / 44 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 44 "'I'm bo'in' little holes so you kin get bref, Brer Wolf.' **Who acts:** Tobacco, little holes · **What happens:** be, kin, get · **To what, where:** bo'in, bref This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tobacco, little holes), 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:pg2306:16:44 # text = "'I'm bo'in' little holes so you kin get bref, Brer Wolf.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bo'in bo'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 kin kin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 13 bref bref NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Tobacco | bo'in | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | little holes | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | little holes *not said here* | bref | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bref=Stimulus | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/45/) - ↑ back to [XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/16/)