--- title: "He sallied 'roun', ole Brer Rabbit did, en atter he make sho dat no… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "He sallied 'roun', ole Brer Rabbit did, en atter he make sho dat nobody ain't foller'n un 'im, inter de spring-'ouse he bounces, en dar he stays twel he git a bait er butter. Who acts: nip, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibble --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/10/) [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/) / [XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/) / 10 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 10 "He sallied 'roun', ole Brer Rabbit did, en atter he make sho dat nobody ain't foller'n un 'im, inter de spring-'ouse he bounces, en dar he stays twel he git a bait er butter. **Who acts:** nip, Brer · **What happens:** sally, do, make, bounce, stay, git · **To what, where:** en atter, ouse, er butter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nip, Brer), 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:pg2306:20:10 # text = "He sallied 'roun', ole Brer Rabbit did, en atter he make sho dat nobody ain't foller'n un 'im, inter de spring-'ouse he bounces, en dar he stays twel he git a bait er butter. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sallied sally VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 sho sho NOUN NN _ 15 obj _ _ 17 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 19 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 foller'n foller'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 de de ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ouse ouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 bait bait NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sally** *in a quote* | past | nip | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer roun ole | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | nip | en atter | | | | dat *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sho=Product | | 4 | **bounce** *in a quote* | present | nip | ouse and en dar *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ouse=Agent | | 5 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | nip | a er butter | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dar=Location | | 6 | **git** *in a quote* | | nip | | | | | | tree rules | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/11/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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