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title: Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin', Brer Rabbit sorter stretch hi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin', Brer Rabbit sorter stretch hisse'f, he did, en 'low hit's mos' time fer Brer Fox fer ter git 'long home. Who acts: Bimeby to'rds, Brer, Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 7

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Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin', Brer Rabbit sorter stretch hisse'f, he did, en 'low hit's mos' time fer Brer Fox fer ter git 'long home.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby to'rds, Brer, Brer Fox · **What happens:** shank, do, git · **To what, where:** de evenin, en

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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 (Bimeby to'rds, Brer, Brer Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:18:7
# text = Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin', Brer Rabbit sorter stretch hisse'f, he did, en 'low hit's mos' time fer Brer Fox fer ter git 'long home.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to'rds	to'rd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	shank	shank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	evenin	evenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PART	POS	_	8	dep	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	mos	mo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shank** | present | Bimeby to'rds | de evenin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Brer | en and low hit's mos's time |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **git** |  | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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