--- title: "'I bin so useter ridin' hoss-back, ez deze ladies knows, dat I'm gi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'I bin so useter ridin' hoss-back, ez deze ladies knows, dat I'm gittin' sorter tender-footed;' en dey don't hear much mo' fum Brer Fox dat day, kaze he 'member how Brer Rabbit done bin en rid him; en hit 'uz des 'bout much ez Miss Meadows en de gals could do fer ter keep der snickers fum gittin' u --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/20/) [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/) / [XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raisi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 20 "'I bin so useter ridin' hoss-back, ez deze ladies knows, dat I'm gittin' sorter tender-footed;' en dey don't hear much mo' fum Brer Fox dat day, kaze he 'member how Brer Rabbit done bin en rid him; en hit 'uz des 'bout much ez Miss Meadows en de gals could do fer ter keep der snickers fum gittin' up a 'sturbance 'mong de congregashun. **Who acts:** en, ez deze ladies, dat, en dey, much mo, kaze · **What happens:** bin, know, be, not hear, fox, member · **To what, where:** gittin, kaze, des bout, ez Meadows en · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (en, ez deze ladies, dat, en dey), 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:pg2306:33:20 # text = "'I bin so useter ridin' hoss-back, ez deze ladies knows, dat I'm gittin' sorter tender-footed;' en dey don't hear much mo' fum Brer Fox dat day, kaze he 'member how Brer Rabbit done bin en rid him; en hit 'uz des 'bout much ez Miss Meadows en de gals could do fer ter keep der snickers fum gittin' up a 'sturbance 'mong de congregashun. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 6 useter useter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ridin ridin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hoss hoss NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 footed footed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 34 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 40 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ _ 47 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 48 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 49 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ _ 50 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 list _ _ 53 rid rid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 54 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 56 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 58 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 uz uz NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 61 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 63 much much ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 65 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 66 Meadows Meadow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 67 compound _ _ 67 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 68 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 67 flat:foreign _ _ 69 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 71 nsubj _ _ 70 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 71 aux _ _ 71 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 acl:relcl _ _ 72 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 73 amod _ _ 73 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nsubj _ _ 74 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 ccomp _ _ 75 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 76 amod _ _ 76 snickers snicker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 77 nsubj _ _ 77 fum fum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 74 ccomp _ _ 78 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 78 punct _ _ 80 up up ADP IN _ 85 case _ _ 81 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 82 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 83 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 83 sturbance sturbance NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 compound _ _ 84 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 83 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 85 mong mong NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obl _ _ 86 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 87 compound _ _ 87 congregashun congregashun NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 88 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | en | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | ez deze ladies | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | dat | gittin and sorter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | en dey | | | | day | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **fox** *in a quote* | | much mo | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **member** *in a quote* | | kaze | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rid** *in a quote* | past | Brer | kaze | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | | 8 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | en | des bout | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent bout=Patient en=Result | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | could | gals | ez Meadows en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **fum** *in a quote* | present | der snickers | gittin | | | | up a sturbance mong and de congregashun | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/21/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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