--- title: I'll des 'bout git in dar en take a nap,' en wid dat in he jump, he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I'll des 'bout git in dar en take a nap,' en wid dat in he jump, he did, en he ain't no sooner fix hisse'f dan de bucket 'gun ter go down." Who acts: I, git, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/6/) [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/) / 6 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 6 I'll des 'bout git in dar en take a nap,' en wid dat in he jump, he did, en he ain't no sooner fix hisse'f dan de bucket 'gun ter go down." **Who acts:** I, git, en · **What happens:** take, jump, do, not be, go down · **To what, where:** nap, en wid dat 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 (I, git, en), 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:pg2306:19:6 # text = I'll des 'bout git in dar en take a nap,' en wid dat in he jump, he did, en he ain't no sooner fix hisse'f dan de bucket 'gun ter go down." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 3 des de NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ SpaceAfter=No 5 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nap nap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 18 in in SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 no no ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 dan dan X FW _ 35 compound _ _ 34 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 33 flat:foreign _ _ 35 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 39 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 40 down down ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | future | I | a nap | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nap=Theme dat=Destination | | 2 | **jump** | infinitive | git | en wid dat *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory | | 3 | **do** | past | git | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | en | | | | | fix, soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go down** | infinitive | en *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/19/7/) - ↑ back to [XVI. 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