--- title: Bofe un um wuz allers atter wunner nudder, a prankin' en a pesterin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bofe un um wuz allers atter wunner nudder, a prankin' en a pesterin' 'roun', but Brer Rabbit did had some peace, kaze Brer Fox done got skittish 'bout puttin' de clamps on Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Bofe allers, wunner nudder, peace. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/2/) [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/) / [XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fishe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/) / 2 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 2 Bofe un um wuz allers atter wunner nudder, a prankin' en a pesterin' 'roun', but Brer Rabbit did had some peace, kaze Brer Fox done got skittish 'bout puttin' de clamps on Brer Rabbit. **Who acts:** Bofe allers, wunner nudder, peace · **What happens:** atter, have, do, get · **To what, where:** peace This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bofe allers, wunner nudder, peace), 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:pg2306:19:2 # text = Bofe un um wuz allers atter wunner nudder, a prankin' en a pesterin' 'roun', but Brer Rabbit did had some peace, kaze Brer Fox done got skittish 'bout puttin' de clamps on Brer Rabbit. 1 Bofe Bofe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 3 um um X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 4 wuz wuz X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 allers aller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 atter atter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prankin prankin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pesterin pesterin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 33 skittish skittish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 bout bout ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 puttin puttin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 clamps clamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **atter** | present | Bofe allers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past · do-support | wunner nudder and a prankin's en a pesterin's roun but Brer | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | participle | | some peace and kaze and Brer Fox *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | past | some peace and kaze and Brer Fox | | | | | bout puttin and de clamps on Brer Rabbit; skittish *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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/pg2306/19/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/3/) - ↑ back to [XVI. 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