--- title: W'ile he wuz a fixin' up a tale fer Brer Fox, he hear a lumberin' do… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: W'ile he wuz a fixin' up a tale fer Brer Fox, he hear a lumberin' down de road, en present'y yer cum ole Brer B'ar amblin' 'long fum whar he bin takin' a bee-tree. Who acts: W'ile, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/14/) [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/) / 14 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 14 W'ile he wuz a fixin' up a tale fer Brer Fox, he hear a lumberin' down de road, en present'y yer cum ole Brer B'ar amblin' 'long fum whar he bin takin' a bee-tree. **Who acts:** W'ile, en · **What happens:** wuz, hear, amblin, bin · **To what, where:** fixin, lumberin, road, takin 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 (W'ile, 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:pg2306:26:14 # text = W'ile he wuz a fixin' up a tale fer Brer Fox, he hear a lumberin' down de road, en present'y yer cum ole Brer B'ar amblin' 'long fum whar he bin takin' a bee-tree. 1 W'ile W'ile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wuz wuz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 12 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lumberin lumberin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 de de ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 present'y present'y ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 cum cum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 28 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 29 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 amblin amblin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 takin takin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** | present | W'ile | a fixin | | | | up a tale fer | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | present | W'ile | a lumberin | | | | de road; down *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lumberin=Stimulus | | 3 | **amblin** | | en | road *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bin** | present | en | takin | | | | | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/15/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/)