--- title: Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he might… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he mighty skeer'd un um, en fus news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit hollerin' en tellin' Brer Wolf dat de patter-rollers comin'. Who acts: Brer, you, yer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/42/) [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/) / 42 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 42 Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he mighty skeer'd un um, en fus news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit hollerin' en tellin' Brer Wolf dat de patter-rollers comin'. **Who acts:** Brer, you, yer · **What happens:** bin, tuck up, know, come · **To what, where:** Brer, fus news, Rabbit hollerin 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, you, yer), 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:pg2306:23:42 # text = Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he mighty skeer'd un um, en fus news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit hollerin' en tellin' Brer Wolf dat de patter-rollers comin'. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 2 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 tuck tuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 10 patter patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 fo fo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 20 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 skeer skeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 'd 'd PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 fus fus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 hollerin hollerin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 tellin tellin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 41 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 44 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 43 flat:foreign _ _ 45 patter patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 compound _ _ 48 comin comin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bin** | present | Brer | Brer *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tuck up** | infinitive | Brer *not said here* | | | | now | by patter rollers's fo | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by fo=Trajectory | | 3 | **know** | present | you | fus news *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | present | yer | Rabbit hollerin and en tellin | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hollerin=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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/43/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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