--- title: "Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Bre… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Brer Rabbit keep on lookin' lonesome, en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey sorter rustle roun' fer ter see ef dey can't make Brer Rabbit feel sorter splimmy." Who acts: Bimeby, der, Brer Rabbit, dey sorter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His So --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/26/) [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/) / 26 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 26 "Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Brer Rabbit keep on lookin' lonesome, en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey sorter rustle roun' fer ter see ef dey can't make Brer Rabbit feel sorter splimmy." **Who acts:** Bimeby, der, Brer Rabbit, dey sorter, ef dey, Brer · **What happens:** get out, vittle, keep, rustle, see, not make · **To what, where:** lonesome, roun fer ter, sorter splimmy · **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 (Bimeby, der, Brer Rabbit, dey sorter), 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:pg2306:20:26 # text = "Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Brer Rabbit keep on lookin' lonesome, en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey sorter rustle roun' fer ter see ef dey can't make Brer Rabbit feel sorter splimmy." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 w'en w'en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 come come NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 der der NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 vittles vittle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 lonesome lonesome NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 rustle rustle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 35 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 40 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 43 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 45 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ _ 47 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 xcomp _ _ 48 sorter sorter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 splimmy splimmy NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get out** *in a quote* | past | Bimeby | | | | | all *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vittle** *in a quote* | present | der | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Brer Rabbit | | | lookin's lonesome and en and Brer Fox en | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on lonesome=Location | | 4 | **rustle** *in a quote* | present | dey sorter | roun fer ter | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | dey sorter *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | can | ef dey | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **feel** *in a quote* | present | Brer | sorter splimmy | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splimmy=Theme | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/27/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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