--- title: Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han'ful er hick'ries, but w'en he see Brer Fox tied up dar, he look like he 'stonished. Who acts: yer, Man, w'en, dar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Busi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/31/) [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/) / [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/) / 31 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 31 Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han'ful er hick'ries, but w'en he see Brer Fox tied up dar, he look like he 'stonished. **Who acts:** yer, Man, w'en, dar · **What happens:** not mo'n out, come, wi, see, tie up, look · **To what, where:** Brer, han'ful er hick'ries, w'en, dar This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yer, Man, w'en, dar), 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:pg2306:32:31 # text = Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han'ful er hick'ries, but w'en he see Brer Fox tied up dar, he look like he 'stonished. 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 wa' wa' AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mo'n mo'n VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 er er ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 han'ful han'ful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 hick'ries hick'ry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 see see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 like like SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 stonished stonish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mo'n out** | present · passive | | Brer | | | | er sight | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | yer | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wi** | past | Man Mr. | a han'ful er hick'ries | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past | w'en | w'en *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'en=Stimulus | | 5 | **tie up** | past | w'en | dar | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Patient | | 6 | **look** | present | dar | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **stonish** | past | dar | | | | | | 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/pg2306/32/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/32/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. 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