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title: Bimeby, ole Brer Tarrypin look way off down de road en he see Jedge… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, ole Brer Tarrypin look way off down de road en he see Jedge Buzzard sailin' long en he know hit's time fer 'im fer ter be up. Who acts: Bimeby. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 43

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Bimeby, ole Brer Tarrypin look way off down de road en he see Jedge Buzzard sailin' long en he know hit's time fer 'im fer ter be up.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby · **What happens:** look, see, know, hit · **To what, where:** way, road en, long en

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:21:43
# text = Bimeby, ole Brer Tarrypin look way off down de road en he see Jedge Buzzard sailin' long en he know hit's time fer 'im fer ter be up.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	sailin	sailin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Bimeby and ole Brer | way |  |  |  | down *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | past | Bimeby | road en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | Bimeby | long en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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