--- title: "'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon', whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.' Who acts: Ef, er, Brer, um. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/47/) [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/) / 47 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 47 "'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon', whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.' **Who acts:** Ef, er, Brer, um, you · **What happens:** kill out, whar, kin, see, take, axe · **To what, where:** Brer, de aidge, pon whar, en atter, en sqush · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ef, er, Brer, um), 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:pg2306:27:47 # text = "'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon', whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gwineter gwinet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 6 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 kyar kyar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 ter ter ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 20 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 23 compound _ _ 23 aidge aidge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 24 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 30 nsubj _ _ 25 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 24 flat:foreign _ _ 26 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 pon pon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ', ', PART POS _ 28 dep _ _ 30 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 kin kin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 35 fambly fambly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 41 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 kin kin AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 axe axe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 49 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 sqush sqush NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ef | Brer | | de aidge | | ter that big flat rock | tree rules | | 2 | **whar** *in a quote* | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | Brer | pon whar *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Brer | my en atter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | | um and den | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 7 | **axe** *in a quote* | present | you | en sqush me | | | | | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/48/) - ↑ back to [XXIV. 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