--- title: But 'twan't no year, an 'twan't no mont', en mo'n dat, hit wa'n't sk… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: But 'twan't no year, an 'twan't no mont', en mo'n dat, hit wa'n't skasely a week, w'en bimeby one day Brer B'ar wuz gwine home fum de takin' un a bee-tree, en lo en behol's, who should he see but ole Brer Bull-frog settin' out on de aidge er de mud-muddle fas' 'sleep! Who acts: twa, one day, en beho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/10/) [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/) / [XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/) / 10 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 10 But 'twan't no year, an 'twan't no mont', en mo'n dat, hit wa'n't skasely a week, w'en bimeby one day Brer B'ar wuz gwine home fum de takin' un a bee-tree, en lo en behol's, who should he see but ole Brer Bull-frog settin' out on de aidge er de mud-muddle fas' 'sleep! **Who acts:** twa, one day, en behol, muddle fas · **What happens:** hit, gwine, fum, see, sleep · **To what, where:** w'en This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twa, one day, en behol, muddle fas), 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:pg2306:27:10 # text = But 'twan't no year, an 'twan't no mont', en mo'n dat, hit wa'n't skasely a week, w'en bimeby one day Brer B'ar wuz gwine home fum de takin' un a bee-tree, en lo en behol's, who should he see but ole Brer Bull-frog settin' out on de aidge er de mud-muddle fas' 'sleep! 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 twa twa NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 twa twa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 mont mont NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ', ', PART POS _ 13 dep _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 mo'n mo'n CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 wa' wa' INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 skasely skasely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 27 bimeby bimeby ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 31 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 34 home home ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 fum fum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 compound _ _ 37 takin takin NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 43 compound _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 lo lo ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 behol behol NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 54 nsubj _ _ 52 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ _ 55 but but CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 56 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 57 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 58 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ 63 out out ADP RP _ 61 compound _ _ 64 on on ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 66 compound _ _ 66 aidge aidge NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 67 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 66 dep _ _ 68 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 67 flat:foreign _ _ 69 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 70 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 muddle muddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 fas fa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 75 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ' 's PART POS _ 72 case _ _ 74 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 75 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 76 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | infinitive | twa no year and a twa mont en mo'n dat | | | | | skasely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **gwine** | | one day | | | | | bimeby *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fum** | present | | w'en | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | should | en behol | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **sleep** | | muddle fas | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/11/) - ↑ back to [XXIV. 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