--- title: Brer Tarrypin," continued Uncle Remus, in a tone at once confidentia… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Tarrypin," continued Uncle Remus, in a tone at once confidential and argumentative, "weren't much bigger'n de pa'm er my han', en it look mighty funny fer ter year 'im braggin' 'bout how he kin out-pull Brer B'ar. Who acts: Brer, pa, Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/21/) [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/) / 21 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 21 Brer Tarrypin," continued Uncle Remus, in a tone at once confidential and argumentative, "weren't much bigger'n de pa'm er my han', en it look mighty funny fer ter year 'im braggin' 'bout how he kin out-pull Brer B'ar. **Who acts:** Brer, pa, Remus · **What happens:** continue, not be, be, look, kin, pull · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, tone, year im braggin, Brer · **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 (Brer, pa, Remus), 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:pg2306:29:21 # text = Brer Tarrypin," continued Uncle Remus, in a tone at once confidential and argumentative, "weren't much bigger'n de pa'm er my han', en it look mighty funny fer ter year 'im braggin' 'bout how he kin out-pull Brer B'ar. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 5 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 14 advmod _ _ 14 confidential confidential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 argumentative argumentative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 bigger'n bigger'n CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 pa pa NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 er er ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ', ', PART POS _ 28 dep _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 33 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 im im X FW _ 40 compound _ _ 40 braggin braggin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 bout bout SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 kin kin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 47 out out ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 50 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Brer | Uncle Remus | | a tone at confidential | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | present | pa | year im braggin | | | | er han en | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme braggin=Attribute | | 5 | **kin** | past | Remus | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pull** | infinitive | pa *not said here* | Brer | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent brer=Result | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/22/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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