---
title: "Well, den, w'iles dey wuz all a settin' dar en de 'lasses wuz a bil… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, den, w'iles dey wuz all a settin' dar en de 'lasses wuz a bilin' en a blubberin', dey got ter runnin' on talkin' mighty biggity. Who acts: de lasses, blubberin dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 8

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Well, den, w'iles dey wuz all a settin' dar en de 'lasses wuz a bilin' en a blubberin', dey got ter runnin' on talkin' mighty biggity.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** de lasses, blubberin dey · **What happens:** wuz, get · **To what, where:** den dey wuz, ter runnin

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (de lasses, blubberin dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:29:8
# text = "Well, den, w'iles dey wuz all a settin' dar en de 'lasses wuz a bilin' en a blubberin', dey got ter runnin' on talkin' mighty biggity.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	lasses	lass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bilin	bilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	blubberin	blubberin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	',	',	PART	POS	_	24	dep	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	runnin	runnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	talkin	talkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	biggity	biggity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | de lasses | den dey wuz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | a blubberin dey | ter runnin |  |  |  | mighty biggity on talkin *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runnin=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/7/)
- next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/9/)
- ↑ back to [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/)