--- title: Brer B'ar, he holp*1 Miss Meadows bring de wood, Brer Fox, he men' d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer B'ar, he holp*1 Miss Meadows bring de wood, Brer Fox, he men' de fier, Brer Wolf, he kep' de dogs off, Brer Rabbit, he grease de bottom er de plates fer ter keep de candy fum stickin', en Brer Tarrypin, he klum up in a cheer, en say he'd watch en see dat de 'lasses didn't bile over. Who acts: e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/6/) [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/) / [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/) / 6 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 6 Brer B'ar, he holp\*1 Miss Meadows bring de wood, Brer Fox, he men' de fier, Brer Wolf, he kep' de dogs off, Brer Rabbit, he grease de bottom er de plates fer ter keep de candy fum stickin', en Brer Tarrypin, he klum up in a cheer, en say he'd watch en see dat de 'lasses didn't bile over. **Who acts:** er, Brer, bottom de plates, de candy, en, lasses · **What happens:** holp, bring, fier, kep off, grease, keep · **To what, where:** de wood, dogs, stickin en, cheer, en, dat de · **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 (er, Brer, bottom de plates, de candy), 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:pg2306:29:6 # text = Brer B'ar, he holp*1 Miss Meadows bring de wood, Brer Fox, he men' de fier, Brer Wolf, he kep' de dogs off, Brer Rabbit, he grease de bottom er de plates fer ter keep de candy fum stickin', en Brer Tarrypin, he klum up in a cheer, en say he'd watch en see dat de 'lasses didn't bile over. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 holp holp NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 * * PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 Miss miss NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 12 compound _ _ 12 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 21 compound _ _ 21 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 kep kep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 30 nmod _ _ 30 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 grease grease NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 flat:foreign _ _ 39 bottom bottom ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 43 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 44 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 45 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 46 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 candy candy NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 fum fum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 ccomp _ _ 49 stickin stickin NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ', ', PART POS _ 49 dep _ _ 51 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 appos _ _ 53 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 klum klum NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 57 up up ADP RP _ 56 compound:prt _ _ 58 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 cheer cheer NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ _ 63 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 64 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 66 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 ccomp _ _ 67 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 68 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 66 xcomp _ _ 69 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 71 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 70 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 lasses lass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 75 nsubj _ _ 73 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 74 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 75 advmod _ _ 75 bile bile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 ccomp _ _ 76 over over ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **holp** | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | present | Brer | de wood and Brer Fox and men's de fier | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | | 3 | **fier** | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **kep off** | present | er | dogs de | | | | Brer Rabbit *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **grease** | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | present | bottom de plates and fer ter | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fum** | infinitive | de candy | stickin en | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **klum up** | | er | | | a cheer and en | | | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **watch** | would | er | en | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **see** | infinitive | en *not said here* | dat de | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **not** **bile over** | past · do-support | lasses | | | | | over *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/pg2306/29/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/7/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/)