--- title: "W'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, Brer Rabbit, he slip off en git in a m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "W'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, Brer Rabbit, he slip off en git in a mud-hole en des lef' his eyes stickin' out, kaze he know'd dat Brer B'ar'd be a comin' atter 'im. Who acts: dis, W'iles, kaze, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/32/) [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/) / 32 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 32 "W'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, Brer Rabbit, he slip off en git in a mud-hole en des lef' his eyes stickin' out, kaze he know'd dat Brer B'ar'd be a comin' atter 'im. **Who acts:** dis, W'iles, kaze, Brer · **What happens:** gwine on, slip off, know, dat, be · **To what, where:** en git, kaze, im, hole en, comin atter 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 (dis, W'iles, kaze, Brer), 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:pg2306:26:32 # text = "W'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, Brer Rabbit, he slip off en git in a mud-hole en des lef' his eyes stickin' out, kaze he know'd dat Brer B'ar'd be a comin' atter 'im. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 W'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 4 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 uz uz NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 24 des des X FW _ 25 compound _ _ 25 lef lef NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 compound _ _ 29 stickin stickin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 dat dat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 38 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 39 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 comin comin NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 im im PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gwine on** *in a quote* | | dis | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **slip off** *in a quote* | present | W'iles | en git | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent git=Patient | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | kaze | kaze *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kaze=Stimulus | | 4 | **dat** *in a quote* | would | kaze | im | | a hole en lef eyes stickin | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | Brer | a comin atter | | | | | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/33/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/)