--- title: "Atter w'ile Miss Meadows, she up en say, she did, dat she'd take'n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Atter w'ile Miss Meadows, she up en say, she did, dat she'd take'n loan de young men her bed-cord, en w'iles de candy wuz a coolin' in de plates, dey could all go ter de branch en see Brer Tarrypin kyar out his projick. Who acts: w'ile Miss Meadows, en, coolin, ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/20/) [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/) / [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 20 "Atter w'ile Miss Meadows, she up en say, she did, dat she'd take'n loan de young men her bed-cord, en w'iles de candy wuz a coolin' in de plates, dey could all go ter de branch en see Brer Tarrypin kyar out his projick. **Who acts:** w'ile Miss Meadows, en, coolin, ter · **What happens:** say, do, dat, take'n, go, see out · **To what, where:** loan, de candy wuz, Brer kyar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'ile Miss Meadows, en, coolin, ter), 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:pg2306:29:20 # text = "Atter w'ile Miss Meadows, she up en say, she did, dat she'd take'n loan de young men her bed-cord, en w'iles de candy wuz a coolin' in de plates, dey could all go ter de branch en see Brer Tarrypin kyar out his projick. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Atter Atter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 w'ile w'ile NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 compound _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 dat dat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 take'n take'n VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 19 flat:foreign _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 30 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 candy candy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 coolin coolin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 44 ter ter X FW Foreign=Yes 48 nsubj _ _ 45 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 44 flat:foreign _ _ 46 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 ccomp _ _ 49 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 flat _ _ 51 kyar kyar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 out out ADP RP _ 48 compound:prt _ _ 53 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 projick projick NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | w'ile Miss Meadows and she en | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | en | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take'n** *in a quote* | would | en | loan and young men en's bed cord and en w'iles and de candy wuz | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | could | a coolin in de plates and dey | de candy wuz *not said here* | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see out** *in a quote* | infinitive | ter | Brer kyar | | | | | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/21/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/)