--- title: "Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumber… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumberin' 'long, en he lit--kerblam!--right in de middle er de fier, en dat wuz de las' er ole Brer Possum." Who acts: Possum, en, runnin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Ni --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/60/) [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/) / 60 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 60 "Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumberin' 'long, en he lit--kerblam!--right in de middle er de fier, en dat wuz de las' er ole Brer Possum." **Who acts:** Possum, en, runnin · **What happens:** tuck, do, come, light, start · **To what, where:** start, lumberin, en 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 (Possum, en, runnin), 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:pg2306:20:60 # text = "Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumberin' 'long, en he lit--kerblam!--right in de middle er de fier, en dat wuz de las' er ole Brer Possum." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ole Ole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tuck tuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 runnin runnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 lumberin lumberin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lit light VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 kerblam kerblam NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 right right ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 compound _ _ 37 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 dat dat X FW _ 41 compound _ _ 41 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 42 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 41 conj _ _ 43 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 46 advmod _ _ 46 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Possum possum NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | Possum | a runnin's start | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Theme | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Possum | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | en | lumberin | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lumberin=Theme | | 4 | **light** *in a quote* | past | Possum | en and kerblam *not said here* | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product | | 5 | **start** *in a quote* | | a runnin | | | | | | nom start «event transitive»: 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/20/61/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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