--- title: "DAR wuz one season" said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "DAR wuz one season" said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his whiskers, "w'en Brer Fox say to hisse'f dat he speck he better whirl in en plant a goober-patch, en in dem days, mon, hit wuz tech en go. Who acts: wuz one season, w'en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/1/) [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/) / [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/) / 1 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 1 "DAR wuz one season" said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his whiskers, "w'en Brer Fox say to hisse'f dat he speck he better whirl in en plant a goober-patch, en in dem days, mon, hit wuz tech en go. **Who acts:** wuz one season, w'en · **What happens:** say, pull, speck, hit, go · **To what, where:** whiskers, Remus, wuz · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz one season, w'en), 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:pg2306:26:1 # text = "DAR wuz one season" said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his whiskers, "w'en Brer Fox say to hisse'f dat he speck he better whirl in en plant a goober-patch, en in dem days, mon, hit wuz tech en go. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 DAR DAR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 thoughtfully thoughtfully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 20 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 speck speck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 whirl whirl NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 goober goober NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 mon mon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 46 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 tech tech ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wuz one season | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pull** | gerund | wuz one season *not said here* | | | | | thoughtfully *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | w'en | | | Remus's whiskers | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **speck** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en | Remus | | | | to hisse'f dat | tree rules | | 5 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | | wuz | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wuz=Patient en=Result | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: [XXII. a Story About the Litt…, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/41/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/2/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. 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