--- title: "Brer Fox, he grab up his walkin'-stick, en bofe un um went runnin'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Brer Fox, he grab up his walkin'-stick, en bofe un um went runnin' back down ter der goober-patch, en w'en dey got dar, sho 'nuff, dar wuz ole Brer B'ar. Who acts: Brer, walkin, un um, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/29/) [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/) / 29 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 29 "Brer Fox, he grab up his walkin'-stick, en bofe un um went runnin' back down ter der goober-patch, en w'en dey got dar, sho 'nuff, dar wuz ole Brer B'ar. **Who acts:** Brer, walkin, un um, dey · **What happens:** grab up, stick, go, get · **To what, where:** runnin, dar 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, walkin, un um, dey), 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:pg2306:26:29 # text = "Brer Fox, he grab up his walkin'-stick, en bofe un um went runnin' back down ter der goober-patch, en w'en dey got dar, sho 'nuff, dar wuz ole Brer B'ar. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 walkin walkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 bofe bofe NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 runnin runnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 25 goober goober NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 flat _ _ 31 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sho sho NOUN NN _ 33 appos _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 42 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 43 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab up** *in a quote* | present | Brer | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stick** *in a quote* | | Brer's walkin | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | un um | runnin | | | | ter *obl*; down *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location runnin=Theme | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | dey | dar | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/30/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/)