--- title: Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox c… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox could er nab Brer Rabbit, but eve'y time he got de chance, his mine 'ud sorter rezume 'bout Brer Wolf, en he let Brer Rabbit 'lone. Who acts: er times, Brer, mine. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/2/) [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/) / [XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Ra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/) / 2 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 2 Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox could er nab Brer Rabbit, but eve'y time he got de chance, his mine 'ud sorter rezume 'bout Brer Wolf, en he let Brer Rabbit 'lone. **Who acts:** er times, Brer, mine · **What happens:** er, nab, get, bout, let · **To what, where:** en, Brer, de chance This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (er times, Brer, mine), 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:pg2306:18:2 # text = Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox could er nab Brer Rabbit, but eve'y time he got de chance, his mine 'ud sorter rezume 'bout Brer Wolf, en he let Brer Rabbit 'lone. 1 Dey Dey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 seein seein NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 bunnunce bunnunce NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 er er VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 19 nab nab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 eve'y eve'y ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ud ud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 rezume rezume NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 ' 's PART POS _ 36 case _ SpaceAfter=No 38 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 39 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 40 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 ' 's PART POS _ 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 48 lone lone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **er** | could | er times and Brer Fox | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nab** | infinitive | er times and Brer Fox *not said here* | Brer | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Patient | | 3 | **get** | past | Brer | de chance | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | | 4 | **bout** | | mine | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | past | Brer | en *not said here* | | | | lone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | 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/pg2306/18/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/3/) - ↑ back to [XV. 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