--- title: "Dreckly Brer Rabbit hear um callin' 'im ag'in en off he goes, en di… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Dreckly Brer Rabbit hear um callin' 'im ag'in en off he goes, en dis time, bless yo' soul, he gits de butter out so clean dat he kin see hisse'f in de bottom er de bucket. Who acts: Dreckly. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/22/) [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/) / 22 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 22 "Dreckly Brer Rabbit hear um callin' 'im ag'in en off he goes, en dis time, bless yo' soul, he gits de butter out so clean dat he kin see hisse'f in de bottom er de bucket. **Who acts:** Dreckly · **What happens:** hear, go, bless out, git, kin, see · **To what, where:** Dreckly, yo soul, clean dat, hisse'f, de bottom er 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 (Dreckly), 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:pg2306:20:22 # text = "Dreckly Brer Rabbit hear um callin' 'im ag'in en off he goes, en dis time, bless yo' soul, he gits de butter out so clean dat he kin see hisse'f in de bottom er de bucket. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dreckly Dreckly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 callin callin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 ag'in ag'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 off off ADP IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 22 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gits git NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 27 conj _ _ 29 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 kin kin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 37 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 43 compound _ _ 43 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | | Dreckly | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer callin=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Dreckly | | | | time | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bless out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | yo soul | | | | so clean dat | tree rules | | 4 | **git** *in a quote* | | Dreckly | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **kin** *in a quote* | past | Dreckly | clean dat *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dreckly *not said here* | hisse'f | | de bottom er and de bucket | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hisse'f=Stimulus | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/23/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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