--- title: Bimeby dey 'gun ter git kinder familious wid wunner nudder like dey… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bimeby dey 'gun ter git kinder familious wid wunner nudder like dey useter, en it got so Brer Fox'd call on Brer Rabbit, en dey'd set up en smoke der pipes, dey would, like no ha'sh feelin's 'd ever rested 'twixt um. Who acts: en, Brer, en dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/3/) [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/) / 3 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 3 Bimeby dey 'gun ter git kinder familious wid wunner nudder like dey useter, en it got so Brer Fox'd call on Brer Rabbit, en dey'd set up en smoke der pipes, dey would, like no ha'sh feelin's 'd ever rested 'twixt um. **Who acts:** en, Brer, en dey · **What happens:** get, call, set up, rest · **To what, where:** en, smoke der pipes, twixt um · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (en, Brer, en dey), 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:pg2306:18:3 # text = Bimeby dey 'gun ter git kinder familious wid wunner nudder like dey useter, en it got so Brer Fox'd call on Brer Rabbit, en dey'd set up en smoke der pipes, dey would, like no ha'sh feelin's 'd ever rested 'twixt um. 1 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 8 familious familious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 useter useter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 44 det _ _ 43 ha'sh ha'sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 feelin feelin NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 'd 'd NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 48 advmod _ _ 48 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 dep _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 twixt twixt NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | en | en *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | would | Brer | | | | | on Brer Rabbit | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **set up** | would | en dey | smoke der pipes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pipe=Result | | 4 | **rest** | past | | twixt um | | | ever | like no ha'sh feelin's 'd | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/18/4/) - ↑ back to [XV. 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