--- title: W'iles dey wuz sputin' over de wunderment, Brer Rabbit say he see tr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: W'iles dey wuz sputin' over de wunderment, Brer Rabbit say he see tracks all 'roun' dar, en he p'int out dat ef dey'll all go ter sleep, he kin ketch de chap w'at stole de butter. Who acts: W'iles, dar, roun dar, ketch chap w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/43/) [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/) / 43 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 43 W'iles dey wuz sputin' over de wunderment, Brer Rabbit say he see tracks all 'roun' dar, en he p'int out dat ef dey'll all go ter sleep, he kin ketch de chap w'at stole de butter. **Who acts:** W'iles, dar, roun dar, ketch chap w'at, ter · **What happens:** say, see, p'int out, go, kin, steal · **To what, where:** Brer, tracks, sleep, de 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 (W'iles, dar, roun dar, ketch chap w'at), 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:pg2306:20:43 # text = W'iles dey wuz sputin' over de wunderment, Brer Rabbit say he see tracks all 'roun' dar, en he p'int out dat ef dey'll all go ter sleep, he kin ketch de chap w'at stole de butter. 1 W'iles W'iles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sputin sputin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 8 compound _ _ 8 wunderment wunderment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 11 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 15 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 p'int p'int NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 dat dat ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 ef ef ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 32 ter ter PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 kin kin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 37 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 38 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 42 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 43 compound _ _ 43 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | W'iles | tracks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | | 3 | **p'int out** | | dar | | | | | dat ef dey; out *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | future | all roun dar | ter's sleep | | | | all *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleep=Theme | | 5 | **kin** | past | dar | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **steal** | past | ketch chap w'at | de butter | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location butter=Theme | | 7 | **sleep** | | ter | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/44/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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