--- title: Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," contin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," continued the old man, looking curiously at the little boy, "ole Miss Favers wouldn't be bodder'n yo' ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve'y now en den; en it look like ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't be squattin' 'roun' yer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/6/) [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/) / 6 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 6 Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," continued the old man, looking curiously at the little boy, "ole Miss Favers wouldn't be bodder'n yo' ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve'y now en den; en it look like ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't be squattin' 'roun' yer makin' dese yer fish-baskits." **Who acts:** Ef folks, cup, I, nigger dat · **What happens:** make, continue, look, not bodder'n, sugar, know · **To what, where:** der livin, old man, ole Miss Favers, fer ter borry, en · **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 folks, cup, I, nigger dat), 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:pg2306:27:6 # text = Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," continued the old man, looking curiously at the little boy, "ole Miss Favers wouldn't be bodder'n yo' ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve'y now en den; en it look like ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't be squattin' 'roun' yer makin' dese yer fish-baskits." 1 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 livin livin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 9 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 trubble trubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 curiously curiously ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Favers faver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 bodder'n bodder'n VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 35 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 37 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 borry borry NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 acl:relcl _ _ 46 eve'y eve'y ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 48 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 51 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 54 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 ter ter ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 obl _ _ 57 dat dat AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 nigger nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 63 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 64 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 66 advmod _ _ 65 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 66 cop _ _ 66 squattin squattin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ _ 68 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 69 punct _ _ 71 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 72 nmod:poss _ _ 72 makin makin NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ _ 74 dese dese NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 conj _ _ 75 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 78 nmod:poss _ _ 76 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 77 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 76 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 78 baskits baskit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | could | Ef folks | der livin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | | the old man | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | at the little boy; curiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme | | 4 | **not** **bodder'n** | would · passive | | ole Miss Favers | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sugar** | | cup | fer ter borry *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | cup | en | | | | like me | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **know** | | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **not** **is** | would | a nigger dat | | | | | squattin *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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/7/) - ↑ back to [XXIV. 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