--- title: "'W'iles I wuz cleanin' up my new-groun' day 'fo' yistiddy,' sez Bre… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'W'iles I wuz cleanin' up my new-groun' day 'fo' yistiddy,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'I come 'cross wunner deze yer ole time bee- trees. Who acts: W'iles, Rabbit up'n. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'iles, Rabbit up'n), 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:pg2306:31:39 # text = "'W'iles I wuz cleanin' up my new-groun' day 'fo' yistiddy,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'I come 'cross wunner deze yer ole time bee- trees. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 W'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 cleanin cleanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 18 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 yistiddy yistiddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 35 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 37 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | W'iles | cleanin | | | | up my new groun | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit up'n *= up'n* | cross wunner deze yer's time bee trees | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/40/) - ↑ back to [XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/)