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title: Sho 'nuff, bimeby here come Brer B'ar down de road, en w'en he git t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Sho 'nuff, bimeby here come Brer B'ar down de road, en w'en he git ter de mud-hole, he say: Who acts: nuff, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 33

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Sho 'nuff, bimeby here come Brer B'ar down de road, en w'en he git ter de mud-hole, he say:

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**Who acts:** nuff, Brer · **What happens:** come down, git, say · **To what, where:** Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nuff, Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:26:33
# text = Sho 'nuff, bimeby here come Brer B'ar down de road, en w'en he git ter de mud-hole, he say:
1	Sho	Sho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
9	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	conj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
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	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | present | Sho's nuff and bimeby | Brer |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **git** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | de road | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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