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title: Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' out in de back-yard, come r… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' out in de back-yard, come runnin' in hollerin', 'Oh, ma! oh, ma! Who acts: Bimeby er. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 19

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Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' out in de back-yard, come runnin' in hollerin', 'Oh, ma! oh, ma!

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**Who acts:** Bimeby er · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** runnin, ma

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby er), 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:pg2306:4:19
# text = Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' out in de back-yard, come runnin' in hollerin', 'Oh, ma! oh, ma!
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	playin	playin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	runnin	runnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	',	',	PART	POS	_	21	dep	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
28	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Bimeby er de little Rabbits and playin | runnin |  | ma |  | ma *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location runnin=Theme |

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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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