--- title: Dey sot down by de side er de big road, en dar dey jabber en confab… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey sot down by de side er de big road, en dar dey jabber en confab 'mong wunner nudder, twel bimeby old Brer Possum, he take 'n tell Brer Rabbit dat he mos' pe'sh out, en Brer Rabbit, he lip up in de a'r, he did, en smack his han's tergedder, en say dat he know right whar Brer Possum kin git a bait --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/31/) [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/) / [XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 31 Dey sot down by de side er de big road, en dar dey jabber en confab 'mong wunner nudder, twel bimeby old Brer Possum, he take 'n tell Brer Rabbit dat he mos' pe'sh out, en Brer Rabbit, he lip up in de a'r, he did, en smack his han's tergedder, en say dat he know right whar Brer Possum kin git a bait er 'simmons. **Who acts:** sot, Dey sot, en, tergedder · **What happens:** take, tell out, mos, lip up, do, smack · **To what, where:** de a'r, dat, right whar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sot, Dey sot, en, tergedder), 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:pg2306:30:31 # text = Dey sot down by de side er de big road, en dar dey jabber en confab 'mong wunner nudder, twel bimeby old Brer Possum, he take 'n tell Brer Rabbit dat he mos' pe'sh out, en Brer Rabbit, he lip up in de a'r, he did, en smack his han's tergedder, en say dat he know right whar Brer Possum kin git a bait er 'simmons. 1 Dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 10 compound _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 jabber jabber NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 confab confab NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 list _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 mong mong NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 bimeby bimeby ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 31 'n 'n AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 33 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 mos mos NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 pe'sh pe'sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 43 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 44 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 lip lip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 51 compound _ _ 51 a'r a'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 smack smack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 conj _ _ 58 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 60 's 's PART POS _ 59 case _ _ 61 tergedder tergedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 64 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 parataxis _ _ 65 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 ccomp _ _ 68 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 70 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 compound _ _ 71 Possum possum NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 kin kin NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 compound _ _ 73 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 compound _ _ 74 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 75 bait bait NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ _ 76 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 nmod:poss _ _ 77 ' 's PART POS _ 76 case _ SpaceAfter=No 78 simmons simmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | infinitive | sot | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell out** *speech: assert* | | Dey sot by de side er and de big road and en | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mos** | | sot | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lip up** | present | sot | | | de a'r | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | past | sot | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **smack** | past | en | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Brer's han's tergedder and en | dat | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **know** | present | sot | right whar | | | | | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/32/) - ↑ back to [XXVII. 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