--- title: "Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole Brer Bull-frog by wunner his behime legs, en sling his axe on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock. Who acts: Dis, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catche --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/48/) [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/) / 48 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 48 "Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole Brer Bull-frog by wunner his behime legs, en sling his axe on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock. **Who acts:** Dis, en · **What happens:** look, gree, take, sle, put · **To what, where:** fa'r, en, ole Brer Bull frog, axe, shoulder, big flat rock 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 (Dis, en), 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:pg2306:27:48 # text = "Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole Brer Bull-frog by wunner his behime legs, en sling his axe on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 fa'r fa'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 squar squar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 9 dat dat ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 gree gree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 20 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 21 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 behime behime NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 31 sling sle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 39 off off ADP IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 42 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 xcomp _ _ 43 de de ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dis | fa'r and squar | | | | dat Brer B'ar | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fa'r=Attribute | | 2 | **gree** *in a quote* | infinitive | dis | en | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | dis | en *not said here* | ole Brer Bull frog and en and en | | | by wunner dis's behime legs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frog=Destination | | 4 | **sle** *in a quote* | gerund | en *not said here* | en's axe | | en's shoulder | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | en | big flat rock | | | | f *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rock=Goal | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/49/) - ↑ back to [XXIV. 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