--- title: Den Brer Wolf he put in en holp Brer B'ar pull, but des like he didn… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den Brer Wolf he put in en holp Brer B'ar pull, but des like he didn't, en den dey all holp 'im, en, bless grashus! w'iles dey wuz all a pullin', Brer Tarrypin, he holler, en ax um w'y dey don't take up de slack. Who acts: Den, Brer, holp w'iles, um w'y dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/30/) [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/) / 30 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 30 Den Brer Wolf he put in en holp Brer B'ar pull, but des like he didn't, en den dey all holp 'im, en, bless grashus! w'iles dey wuz all a pullin', Brer Tarrypin, he holler, en ax um w'y dey don't take up de slack. **Who acts:** Den, Brer, holp w'iles, um w'y dey · **What happens:** put, pull, not do, wuz, holler, not take up · **To what, where:** des, en holp, en den dey, de slack 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 (Den, Brer, holp w'iles, um w'y dey), 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:pg2306:29:30 # text = Den Brer Wolf he put in en holp Brer B'ar pull, but des like he didn't, en den dey all holp 'im, en, bless grashus! w'iles dey wuz all a pullin', Brer Tarrypin, he holler, en ax um w'y dey don't take up de slack. 1 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 holp holp NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 holp holp NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 bless bless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 grashus grashus NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 33 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 acl:relcl _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pullin pullin NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ', ', PART POS _ 38 dep _ _ 40 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 41 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 47 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 w'y w'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 51 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 52 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl:relcl _ _ 54 up up ADP RP _ 53 compound:prt _ _ 55 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 slack slack NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Den | des | | en holp | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in holp=Destination | | 2 | **pull** | present | Brer | en holp *not said here* | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holp=Theme | | 3 | **not** **do** | past | den | en den dey | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wuz** | | holp w'iles | en den dey *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **holler** *speech: other* | | den | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **take up** | present · do-support | um w'y dey | de slack | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slack=Theme | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/31/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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