--- title: "'Hit 'im in de mouf, Brer Fox; hit 'im in do mouf'; en Brer Fox, he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Hit 'im in de mouf, Brer Fox; hit 'im in do mouf'; en Brer Fox, he draw back wid de walkin' cane, en blip he tuck 'im, en eve'y time Brer B'ar'd try ter 'splain, Brer Fox'd shower down on him. Who acts: you, Fox, splain. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/31/) [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/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 31 "'Hit 'im in de mouf, Brer Fox; hit 'im in do mouf'; en Brer Fox, he draw back wid de walkin' cane, en blip he tuck 'im, en eve'y time Brer B'ar'd try ter 'splain, Brer Fox'd shower down on him. **Who acts:** you, Fox, splain · **What happens:** hit, do, draw back, walk, try, shower down · **To what, where:** im, de mouf, mouf, cane, en blip · **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 (you, Fox, splain), 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:pg2306:26:31 # text = "'Hit 'im in de mouf, Brer Fox; hit 'im in do mouf'; en Brer Fox, he draw back wid de walkin' cane, en blip he tuck 'im, en eve'y time Brer B'ar'd try ter 'splain, Brer Fox'd shower down on him. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 im im NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 8 compound _ _ 8 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 im im NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 walkin walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 blip blip NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 37 tuck tuck NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 eve'y eve'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:desc _ _ 44 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 46 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 48 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 ' 's PART POS _ 48 case _ SpaceAfter=No 50 splain splain NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ _ 53 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 54 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 shower shower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 ccomp _ _ 56 down down ADP RP _ 55 compound:prt _ _ 57 on on ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | im | | de mouf | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent im=Patient fox=Result | | 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | | im | | | | en Brer Fox *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme im=Co-Theme | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | mouf | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouf=Eventuality | | 4 | **draw back** *in a quote* | present | Fox | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **walk** *in a quote* | gerund | Fox *not said here* | cane | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cane=Trajectory | | 6 | **try** *in a quote* | would | Fox | en blip *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shower down** *in a quote* | would | ter's splain | | | | | on Fox | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on he=Destination | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/32/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. 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