--- title: Brer Wolf he say ter hisse'f dat ole Miss Pa'tridge tryin' fer ter t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Wolf he say ter hisse'f dat ole Miss Pa'tridge tryin' fer ter toll 'im 'way fum her nes', en wid dat he lay his fish down en put out inter de bushes whar ole Miss Pa'tridge come fum, en 'bout dat time Brer Rabbit, he happen long. Who acts: Brer Wolf, en, dat, home. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/32/) [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/) / 32 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 32 Brer Wolf he say ter hisse'f dat ole Miss Pa'tridge tryin' fer ter toll 'im 'way fum her nes', en wid dat he lay his fish down en put out inter de bushes whar ole Miss Pa'tridge come fum, en 'bout dat time Brer Rabbit, he happen long. **Who acts:** Brer Wolf, en, dat, home · **What happens:** say, fum, wi, lie, put out, come · **To what, where:** ter hisse'f, nes, fish, fum · **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 (Brer Wolf, en, dat, home), 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:pg2306:23:32 # text = Brer Wolf he say ter hisse'f dat ole Miss Pa'tridge tryin' fer ter toll 'im 'way fum her nes', en wid dat he lay his fish down en put out inter de bushes whar ole Miss Pa'tridge come fum, en 'bout dat time Brer Rabbit, he happen long. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ter ter X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 8 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 Pa'tridge Pa'tridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 tryin tryin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 14 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 fum fum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 nes ne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ', ', PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 down down ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 38 whar whar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 Pa'tridge Pa'tridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 42 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 43 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 50 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 appos _ _ 51 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 55 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Brer Wolf | ter hisse'f | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fum** | infinitive | | fish's nes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wi** | past | en | fish's nes *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** | past | dat | home's fish | | | | down en put inter de bushes whar ole Miss | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fish=Theme | | 5 | **put out** | participle | | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | infinitive | dat *not said here* | fum and en and bout dat time | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fum=Theme | | 7 | **happen** | present | home | | | | | long *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/33/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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