--- title: Dey all say dey gwine do it, but ole Brer Rabbit, he crope off whar… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey all say dey gwine do it, but ole Brer Rabbit, he crope off whar der wuz a cool place under some jimson weeds, en dar he sot wukkin his mind how he gwineter git dus' out'n dat rock. Who acts: Dey, crope, dar sot. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/9/) [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/) / 9 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 9 Dey all say dey gwine do it, but ole Brer Rabbit, he crope off whar der wuz a cool place under some jimson weeds, en dar he sot wukkin his mind how he gwineter git dus' out'n dat rock. **Who acts:** Dey, crope, dar sot · **What happens:** say, do, crope, sot, wukkin, rock · **To what, where:** dey gwine, gwine, mind · **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 (Dey, crope, dar sot), 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:pg2306:33:9 # text = Dey all say dey gwine do it, but ole Brer Rabbit, he crope off whar der wuz a cool place under some jimson weeds, en dar he sot wukkin his mind how he gwineter git dus' out'n dat rock. 1 Dey Dey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 crope crope NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 16 off off ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 25 jimson jimson NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 32 wukkin wukkin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 37 gwineter gwinet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 38 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 dus dus NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 out'n out'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dey | dey gwine | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gwine=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present | Dey *not said here* | gwine | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **crope** | | dey | | | | | off whar | tree rules | | 4 | **sot** | | crope and der wuz | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wukkin** | gerund | dar sot *not said here* | dey's mind | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rock** | | dey | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mind** | | dey | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/33/10/) - ↑ back to [XXX. 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