--- title: Gwine 'long one day, met Johnny Huby, ax him grine nine yards er ste… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Gwine 'long one day, met Johnny Huby, ax him grine nine yards er steel fer me, tole me w'ich he couldn't; den I hist 'im over Hickerson Dickerson's barn-doors; knock 'im ninety-nine miles under water, w'en he rise, he rise in Pike straddle un a hanspike, en I lef' 'im dar smokin' er de hornpipe, Jub --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/7/) [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/) / [XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/) / 7 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 7 Gwine 'long one day, met Johnny Huby, ax him grine nine yards er steel fer me, tole me w'ich he couldn't; den I hist 'im over Hickerson Dickerson's barn-doors; knock 'im ninety-nine miles under water, w'en he rise, he rise in Pike straddle un a hanspike, en I lef' 'im dar smokin' er de hornpipe, Juba reda seda breda. **Who acts:** long one day, I, w'en, hanspike · **What happens:** meet, ax, hist, knock, rise, lef · **To what, where:** Johnny, im ninety, water, Pike straddle un This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long one day, I, w'en, hanspike), 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:pg2306:31:7 # text = Gwine 'long one day, met Johnny Huby, ax him grine nine yards er steel fer me, tole me w'ich he couldn't; den I hist 'im over Hickerson Dickerson's barn-doors; knock 'im ninety-nine miles under water, w'en he rise, he rise in Pike straddle un a hanspike, en I lef' 'im dar smokin' er de hornpipe, Juba reda seda breda. 1 Gwine Gwine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ SpaceAfter=No 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Johnny Johnny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 Huby Huby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ax ax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 grine grine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 16 er er ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 tole tole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 hist hist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 im im ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 34 Hickerson Hickerson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 35 Dickerson Dickerson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 37 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 41 knock knock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 ninety ninety NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 48 under under ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 Pike Pike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 59 straddle straddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 hanspike hanspike NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 64 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 65 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 66 lef lef NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ _ 68 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 70 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 smokin smokin NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 71 punct _ _ 73 er er X FW _ 75 compound _ _ 74 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 73 flat:foreign _ _ 75 hornpipe hornpipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 76 , , PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 77 Juba Juba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 80 compound _ _ 78 reda reda NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 compound _ _ 79 seda seda NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 compound _ _ 80 breda breda NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Gwine's long one day | Johnny | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent johnny=Co-Agent | | 2 | **ax** | infinitive | Gwine's long one day *not said here* | Johnny | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hist** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **knock** | infinitive | I *not said here* | im ninety | | water | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ninety=Destination mile=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | infinitive | w'en | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rise** | present | w'en | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **lef** | | a hanspike | | | Pike straddle un | | | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/8/) - ↑ back to [XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/)