--- title: Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a walk all roun' de groun'-pea patch,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a walk all roun' de groun'-pea patch, en 'twan't long 'fo' he fine a crack in de fence whar de rail done bin rub right smoove, en right dar he sot 'im a trap. Who acts: Brer, roun, de fence whar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/10/) [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/) / 10 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 10 Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a walk all roun' de groun'-pea patch, en 'twan't long 'fo' he fine a crack in de fence whar de rail done bin rub right smoove, en right dar he sot 'im a trap. **Who acts:** Brer, roun, de fence whar · **What happens:** take, patch, fine, do, rub, sot · **To what, where:** walk, crack, de fence whar, bin, right smoove 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 (Brer, roun, de fence whar), 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:pg2306:26:10 # text = Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a walk all roun' de groun'-pea patch, en 'twan't long 'fo' he fine a crack in de fence whar de rail done bin rub right smoove, en right dar he sot 'im a trap. 1 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 14 compound _ _ 14 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 twa twa NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 29 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fine fine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 compound _ _ 37 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 39 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 rub rub VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 41 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 smoove smoove NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 right right ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 im im ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | infinitive | Brer | a walk | | | day | Bimeby *vocative*; long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | | 2 | **patch** | | all roun | a walk *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fine** | past | roun | a crack | | de fence whar and de rail | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crack=Recipient | | 4 | **do** | participle | de fence whar and de rail *not said here* | bin | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Eventuality | | 5 | **rub** | present | | right smoove and en | | | | im a trap | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent smoove=Theme | | 6 | **sot** | | roun | | | | | right *property* | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/11/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/)