--- title: "'Hit's mighty big luck,' sezee, 'ef w'en I ketch de chap w'at nibbl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Hit's mighty big luck,' sezee, 'ef w'en I ketch de chap w'at nibble my greens, likewise I ketch de feller w'at gnyaw my goose,' sezee, en wid dat he let inter Brer Fox wid de hick'ries, en de way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood. Who acts: En mo'n dat, mighty big luck, goose, en. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/35/) [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/) / 35 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 35 "'Hit's mighty big luck,' sezee, 'ef w'en I ketch de chap w'at nibble my greens, likewise I ketch de feller w'at gnyaw my goose,' sezee, en wid dat he let inter Brer Fox wid de hick'ries, en de way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood. **Who acts:** En mo'n dat, mighty big luck, goose, en · **What happens:** ketch, nibble, gnyaw, let, play · **To what, where:** greens, goose, inter wid hick'ries, jacket wuz 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 (En mo'n dat, mighty big luck, goose, en), 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:pg2306:32:35 # text = "'Hit's mighty big luck,' sezee, 'ef w'en I ketch de chap w'at nibble my greens, likewise I ketch de feller w'at gnyaw my goose,' sezee, en wid dat he let inter Brer Fox wid de hick'ries, en de way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 17 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 16 flat:foreign _ _ 18 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 nibble nibble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat:foreign _ _ 28 feller fell ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 gnyaw gnyaw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 inter int ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 43 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 45 flat:foreign _ _ 47 hick'ries hick'ry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 51 compound _ _ 51 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod:unmarked _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 54 rap rap NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 caution caution NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 61 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 62 compound _ _ 62 naberhood naberhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ketch** *in a quote* | | En mo'n dat *= dat* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nibble** *in a quote* | infinitive | Hit's mighty big luck and sezee and w'en ketch and chap w'at | my greens | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Patient | | 3 | **ketch** *in a quote* | | En mo'n dat *= dat* | | | | | likewise *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **gnyaw** *in a quote* | infinitive | Hit's mighty big luck and sezee and w'en ketch and chap w'at *not said here* | my goose | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | past | goose | inter wid hick'ries and en de way | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hick'ry=Theme | | 6 | **play** *in a quote* | present | en | jacket wuz | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuz=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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/36/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/)