--- title: Bimeby, here come de fokes: Jedge Buzzard, he come, en Miss Meadows… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bimeby, here come de fokes: Jedge Buzzard, he come, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey come, en den yer come Brer Rabbit wid ribbons tied 'roun' his neck en streamin' fum his years. Who acts: Bimeby, yer, en den, Brer wid ribbons. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/25/) [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/) / [XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/) / 25 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 25 Bimeby, here come de fokes: Jedge Buzzard, he come, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey come, en den yer come Brer Rabbit wid ribbons tied 'roun' his neck en streamin' fum his years. **Who acts:** Bimeby, yer, en den, Brer wid ribbons, en streamin · **What happens:** come, ribbon, tie, fum · **To what, where:** fokes, en, en den, roun This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, yer, en den, Brer wid ribbons), 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:pg2306:21:25 # text = Bimeby, here come de fokes: Jedge Buzzard, he come, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey come, en den yer come Brer Rabbit wid ribbons tied 'roun' his neck en streamin' fum his years. 1 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 de de ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Jedge Jedge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 17 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat:foreign _ _ 19 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 29 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ribbons ribbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 32 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 streamin streamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 fum fum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | infinitive | Bimeby | fokes | | here | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foke=Theme | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | Bimeby | en and Meadows en and gals and dey | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | Bimeby *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | yer | en den *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=Theme | | 5 | **ribbon** | | en den | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tie** | participle | Brer wid ribbons *not said here* | roun | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Patient | | 7 | **fum** | infinitive | en's en streamin | roun *not said here* | | | year | | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/26/) - ↑ back to [XVIII. 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