--- title: Twix' de time w'en Brer B'ar raise up wid his axe en w'en he come do… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Twix' de time w'en Brer B'ar raise up wid his axe en w'en he come down wid it, ole Brer Bull-frog he lipt up en dove down in de mill-pon', kerblink- kerblunk! Who acts: Brer, en w'en, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/54/) [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/) / 54 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 54 Twix' de time w'en Brer B'ar raise up wid his axe en w'en he come down wid it, ole Brer Bull-frog he lipt up en dove down in de mill-pon', kerblink- kerblunk! **Who acts:** Brer, en w'en, en · **What happens:** raise up, wi, come down, lipt up · **To what, where:** de time, thimbleful, ole Brer Bull frog, de mill pon 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 (Brer, en w'en, 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:pg2306:27:54 # text = Twix' de time w'en Brer B'ar raise up wid his axe en w'en he come down wid it, ole Brer Bull-frog he lipt up en dove down in de mill-pon', kerblink- kerblunk! 1 Twix Twix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 4 compound _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 flat _ _ 6 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 23 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lipt lipt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 34 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 pon pon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ', ', PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 38 kerblink kerblink NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 40 kerblunk kerblunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise up** | present | Brer | Twix's de time *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 2 | **wi** | past | | | | | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **come down** | infinitive | en's en w'en | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wi** | past | en's en w'en *not said here* | thimbleful | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lipt up** | past | en | ole Brer Bull frog | | de mill pon and kerblink and kerblunk | | down *property* | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/55/) - ↑ back to [XXIV. 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