--- title: "Brer Buzzard, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he keep up a monstus thi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Brer Buzzard, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he keep up a monstus thinkin', en one day he come 'long en holler en tell Brer Rabbit dat he done fine rich gol'-mine des 'cross de river. Who acts: Brer, long en holler en, Brer Rabbit dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/16/) [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/) / [XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/) / 16 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 16 "Brer Buzzard, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he keep up a monstus thinkin', en one day he come 'long en holler en tell Brer Rabbit dat he done fine rich gol'-mine des 'cross de river. **Who acts:** Brer, long en holler en, Brer Rabbit dat · **What happens:** keep up, come, tell, do, cross · **To what, where:** thinkin en, fine rich gol · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, long en holler en, Brer Rabbit dat), 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:pg2306:24:16 # text = "Brer Buzzard, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he keep up a monstus thinkin', en one day he come 'long en holler en tell Brer Rabbit dat he done fine rich gol'-mine des 'cross de river. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 sayin sayin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nuthin nuthin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 monstus monstus NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 thinkin thinkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ', ', PART POS _ 18 dep _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 36 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 gol gol NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 45 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 46 compound _ _ 46 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer | thinkin en | | | day | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Brer | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | long en holler en | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer Rabbit dat | fine rich gol and des cross | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gol=Eventuality | | 5 | **cross** *in a quote* | | long en holler en *= en* | | | | | | 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/pg2306/24/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/24/17/) - ↑ back to [XXI. 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