--- title: Chuseday wuz same as Sunday, en Friday wuz same as Chuseday, en hit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Chuseday wuz same as Sunday, en Friday wuz same as Chuseday, en hit come down ter dat pass dat w'en Miss Meadows 'ud have chicken-fixin's fer dinner, in 'ud drap Brer Fox en Brer Possum, en w'en she'd have fried greens in 'ud pop ole Brer Rabbit, twel las' Miss Meadows, she tuck'n tell de gals dat s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/5/) [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/) / 5 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 5 Chuseday wuz same as Sunday, en Friday wuz same as Chuseday, en hit come down ter dat pass dat w'en Miss Meadows 'ud have chicken-fixin's fer dinner, in 'ud drap Brer Fox en Brer Possum, en w'en she'd have fried greens in 'ud pop ole Brer Rabbit, twel las' Miss Meadows, she tuck'n tell de gals dat she be dad-blame ef she gwineter keep no tavvum. **Who acts:** Chuseday wuz, dat, ud, chicken fixin, twel las · **What happens:** hit, come down, pass, have, dinner, drap · **To what, where:** Brer Fox en, greens, de gals, blame ef, tavvum · **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 (Chuseday wuz, dat, ud, chicken fixin), 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:pg2306:33:5 # text = Chuseday wuz same as Sunday, en Friday wuz same as Chuseday, en hit come down ter dat pass dat w'en Miss Meadows 'ud have chicken-fixin's fer dinner, in 'ud drap Brer Fox en Brer Possum, en w'en she'd have fried greens in 'ud pop ole Brer Rabbit, twel las' Miss Meadows, she tuck'n tell de gals dat she be dad-blame ef she gwineter keep no tavvum. 1 Chuseday Chuseday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Chuseday Chuseday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 15 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ter ter SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 vocative _ _ 24 Meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ' 's PART POS _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ud ud NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 28 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ud ud NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 39 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 43 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 aux _ _ 50 fried fry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 acl:relcl _ _ 51 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ud ud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 57 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 appos _ _ 58 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 60 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ' 's PART POS _ 61 case _ _ 63 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 Meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 66 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 67 tuck'n tuck'n CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 69 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obj _ _ 71 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 72 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 nsubj _ _ 73 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 77 cop _ _ 74 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 75 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 compound _ _ 77 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 ccomp _ _ 78 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 79 nsubj _ _ 79 gwineter gwinet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 77 conj _ _ 80 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 79 xcomp _ _ 81 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 82 det _ _ 82 tavvum tavvum NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 83 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | Chuseday wuz and en and en | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come down** | infinitive | Chuseday wuz and en and en *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | dat | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | Meadows's ud | | | | | dat Miss *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dinner** | | chicken fixin | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drap** | infinitive | ud | Brer Fox en and en w'en and Miss Meadows | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fry** | would · perfect | dat | greens | | | | in ud pop ole | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent green=Patient in ole=Instrument | | 8 | **meadow** | | twel las | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | dat | de gals | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gal=Recipient dat=Topic | | 10 | **is a** | infinitive | dat | blame ef | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **be** | | dat | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **keep** | infinitive | dat *not said here* | no tavvum | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tavvum=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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/6/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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