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title: Bimeby, w'ile he wuz a settin' dar, up he jump en crack his heels te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, w'ile he wuz a settin' dar, up he jump en crack his heels tergedder en sing out: Who acts: Bimeby w'ile, w'ile, tergedder en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 10

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Bimeby, w'ile he wuz a settin' dar, up he jump en crack his heels tergedder en sing out:

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**Who acts:** Bimeby w'ile, w'ile, tergedder en · **What happens:** wuz, jump, crack, s out · **To what, where:** dar, en, heels

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby w'ile, w'ile, tergedder en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:33:10
# text = Bimeby, w'ile he wuz a settin' dar, up he jump en crack his heels tergedder en sing out:
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	tergedder	tergedd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	sing	s	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** | present | Bimeby w'ile | a settin's dar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump** | infinitive | w'ile | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crack** | infinitive | w'ile *not said here* | dey's heels |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent heel=Patient en=Result |
| 4 | **s out** | gerund | tergedder en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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