--- title: He s'anter long de road, he did, wid his string er fish 'cross his s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: He s'anter long de road, he did, wid his string er fish 'cross his shoulder, w'en fus' news you know ole Miss Pa'tridge, she hop outer de bushes en flutter long right at Brer Wolf nose. Who acts: home, er fish, you, fish. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/31/) [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/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 31 He s'anter long de road, he did, wid his string er fish 'cross his shoulder, w'en fus' news you know ole Miss Pa'tridge, she hop outer de bushes en flutter long right at Brer Wolf nose. **Who acts:** home, er fish, you, fish · **What happens:** do, wi, cross, know, hop, flutter · **To what, where:** shoulder, ole Miss, bushes en, Wolf nose 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 (home, er fish, you, fish), 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:pg2306:23:31 # text = He s'anter long de road, he did, wid his string er fish 'cross his shoulder, w'en fus' news you know ole Miss Pa'tridge, she hop outer de bushes en flutter long right at Brer Wolf nose. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 s'anter s'anter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 5 compound _ _ 5 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 fus fus NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 Pa'tridge Pa'tridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hop hop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 flat:foreign _ _ 34 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 compound _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 flutter flutter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 right right ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | home | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wi** | past | home *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cross** | infinitive | home's er fish | home's shoulder | | | | w'en fus and news *obl* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | | 4 | **know** | present | you | ole Miss | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer miss=Stimulus | | 5 | **hop** | present | fish | bushes en | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory | | 6 | **flutter** | present | fish *not said here* | | | Wolf nose | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nose=Location | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/32/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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