--- title: "I wuz fixin' up a w'ip fer a little chap," he continued, with a sig… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I wuz fixin' up a w'ip fer a little chap," he continued, with a sigh, "but, bless grashus! 'fo' I kin git 'er done de little chap done grow'd up twel he know mo'n I duz." Who acts: little boy, man, bless grashus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. Ho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/16/) [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/) / [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/) / 16 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 16 "I wuz fixin' up a w'ip fer a little chap," he continued, with a sigh, "but, bless grashus! 'fo' I kin git 'er done de little chap done grow'd up twel he know mo'n I duz." **Who acts:** little boy, man, bless grashus · **What happens:** wuz, continue, kin, do, grow, ' up · **To what, where:** fixin, sigh, git, little chap, 'd twel, mo'n · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, man, bless grashus), 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:pg2306:23:16 # text = "I wuz fixin' up a w'ip fer a little chap," he continued, with a sigh, "but, bless grashus! 'fo' I kin git 'er done de little chap done grow'd up twel he know mo'n I duz." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 up up ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 w'ip w'ip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 bless bless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 grashus grashus NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 32 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 kin kin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 33 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 er er ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 37 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 36 flat:foreign _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ _ 41 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'd ' VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 47 mo'n mo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 duz duz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | fixin | | | | up a w'ip fer | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** | past | man | a sigh | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | | 3 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | git | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | bless grashus | little chap | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | bless grashus *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | 'd twel | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twel=Theme | | 7 | **' up** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **know** *in a quote* | present | man | mo'n | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mo'n=Stimulus | | 9 | **duz** *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | mo'n *not said here* | | | | | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/17/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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