--- title: "'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/35/) [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/) / 35 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 35 "'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man. **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** go by, say, tuck off, come out, go · **To what, where:** Brer, en dry hisse'f · **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 (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:pg2306:26:35 # text = "'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 des de AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 tuck tuck VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 de de ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 skeer skeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'd 'd PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 30 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 out out ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 43 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 44 home home ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 ter ter SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 47 fambly fambly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 48 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 49 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 50 enny enny NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go by** *in a quote* | present | Brer | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **tuck off** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | de road like a skeer's mule and en; down *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | Brer | en dry hisse'f in de sun and en | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/36/) - ↑ back to [XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/26/)