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title: "In des 'bout half 'n hour, honey, bofe un um wuz back in de new gro… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "In des 'bout half 'n hour, honey, bofe un um wuz back in de new groun' wukkin' des like dey never heer'd er no well, ceppin' dat eve'y now'n den Brer Rabbit'd bust out in er laff, en old Brer Fox, he'd git a spell er de dry grins." Who acts: wukkin des, Brer, heer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His S
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 46

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"In des 'bout half 'n hour, honey, bofe un um wuz back in de new groun' wukkin' des like dey never heer'd er no well, ceppin' dat eve'y now'n den Brer Rabbit'd bust out in er laff, en old Brer Fox, he'd git a spell er de dry grins."

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**Who acts:** wukkin des, Brer, heer · **What happens:** er, bust out, git · **To what, where:** well, de new groun, dat eve'y, er laff, spell er

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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 (wukkin des, Brer, heer), 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:pg2306:19:46
# text = "In des 'bout half 'n hour, honey, bofe un um wuz back in de new groun' wukkin' des like dey never heer'd er no well, ceppin' dat eve'y now'n den Brer Rabbit'd bust out in er laff, en old Brer Fox, he'd git a spell er de dry grins."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	des	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	amod	_	_
7	'n	'n	PART	POS	_	6	conj	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	wukkin	wukkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	des	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	heer	heer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	now'n	now'n	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	bust	bust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
60	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	59	flat:foreign	_	_
61	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	grins	grin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | would | wukkin des like dey | no well and ceppin |  | de new groun |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bust out** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Brer | dat eve'y now'n den *not said here* |  | er laff and en and old Brer Fox |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve'y=Patient |
| 3 | **git** *in a quote* | would | heer | a spell er |  |  |  |  | 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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