--- title: No matter 'bout dat, de 'simmon patch 'uz dar des like I tell you, e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: No matter 'bout dat, de 'simmon patch 'uz dar des like I tell you, en ole Brer Possum mouf 'gun ter water soon's he year talk un um, en mos' 'fo' Brer Rabbit done tellin' 'im de news, Brer Possum, he put out, he did, en 'twa'n't long 'fo' he wuz perch up in de highes' tree in Brer B'ar 'simmon patch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/36/) [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/) / 36 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 36 No matter 'bout dat, de 'simmon patch 'uz dar des like I tell you, en ole Brer Possum mouf 'gun ter water soon's he year talk un um, en mos' 'fo' Brer Rabbit done tellin' 'im de news, Brer Possum, he put out, he did, en 'twa'n't long 'fo' he wuz perch up in de highes' tree in Brer B'ar 'simmon patch. **Who acts:** I, bout dat, ole · **What happens:** tell, be, put out, do, perch up · **To what, where:** uz dar des, you, en, wuz, de tree · **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 (I, bout dat, ole), 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:pg2306:30:36 # text = No matter 'bout dat, de 'simmon patch 'uz dar des like I tell you, en ole Brer Possum mouf 'gun ter water soon's he year talk un um, en mos' 'fo' Brer Rabbit done tellin' 'im de news, Brer Possum, he put out, he did, en 'twa'n't long 'fo' he wuz perch up in de highes' tree in Brer B'ar 'simmon patch. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 simmon simmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 uz uz NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 mos mo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 43 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 45 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 tellin tellin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 im im X FW _ 51 compound _ _ 50 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 49 flat:foreign _ _ 51 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 appos _ _ 54 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 58 out out ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 61 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 64 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 twa' twa' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 66 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 67 advmod _ _ 67 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 65 advmod _ _ 68 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 72 case _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 72 punct _ _ 71 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj _ _ 72 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 73 perch perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 72 acl _ _ 74 up up ADP RP _ 73 compound:prt _ _ 75 in in ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 76 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 79 compound _ _ 77 highes highe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 79 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ' 's PART POS _ 77 case _ _ 79 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ _ 80 in in ADP IN _ 85 case _ _ 81 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 85 nmod:poss _ _ 82 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 81 flat _ _ 83 ' 's PART POS _ 81 case _ SpaceAfter=No 84 simmon simmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 compound _ _ 85 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 86 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | uz dar des *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | no matter's bout dat and de and simmon patch and en ole and ter water | | | | year | soon, talk *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **put out** | past | ole | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | past | ole | en | | | | for wuz | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | | 5 | **perch up** | participle | | wuz *not said here* | | highes's de tree | | in Brer's simmon patch | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/37/) - ↑ back to [XXVII. 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