--- title: Bimeby, he come up wid Brer Rabbit, en sot down fer to tell 'im how… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bimeby, he come up wid Brer Rabbit, en sot down fer to tell 'im how 'twuz, en w'iles dey wuz a settin' dar, yer come ole Miss Fox a slippin' up en grab um bofe. Who acts: Bimeby, twuz, yer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, twuz, yer), 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:pg2306:37:49 # text = Bimeby, he come up wid Brer Rabbit, en sot down fer to tell 'im how 'twuz, en w'iles dey wuz a settin' dar, yer come ole Miss Fox a slippin' up en grab um bofe. 1 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 im im PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 twuz twuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 w'iles w'ile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 slippin slippin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 up up ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 41 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 42 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 bofe bofe NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | present | Bimeby | wid Brer Rabbit and en sot fer | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Bimeby *not said here* | im | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wuz** | present | twuz and w'iles dey | a settin's dar | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | yer | ole Miss Fox | | | | a slippin *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=Theme | | 5 | **grab** | present | | um bofe | | | | up en | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bofe=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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/50/) - ↑ back to [XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/)