--- title: "Bimeby, w'en de shadders wuz at der shortes', Brer Rabbit he sorter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Bimeby, w'en de shadders wuz at der shortes', Brer Rabbit he sorter brush up en sa'nter down ter Brer Fox's house, en w'en he got dar, he hear somebody groanin', en he look in de do' an dar he see Brer Fox settin' up in a rockin'-cheer all wrop up wid flannil, en he look mighty weak. Who acts: Bime --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/28/) [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/) / [I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/) / 28 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 28 "Bimeby, w'en de shadders wuz at der shortes', Brer Rabbit he sorter brush up en sa'nter down ter Brer Fox's house, en w'en he got dar, he hear somebody groanin', en he look in de do' an dar he see Brer Fox settin' up in a rockin'-cheer all wrop up wid flannil, en he look mighty weak. **Who acts:** Bimeby shadders, ha'r, dar, cheer · **What happens:** wuz, brush up, get, hear, look, do · **To what, where:** en sa'nter, en w'en, groanin en, Brer Fox settin, rockin, wid flannil 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 shadders, ha'r, dar, cheer), 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:pg2306:4:28 # text = "Bimeby, w'en de shadders wuz at der shortes', Brer Rabbit he sorter brush up en sa'nter down ter Brer Fox's house, en w'en he got dar, he hear somebody groanin', en he look in de do' an dar he see Brer Fox settin' up in a rockin'-cheer all wrop up wid flannil, en he look mighty weak. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 w'en w'en X FW Foreign=Yes 2 conj _ _ 5 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 4 flat _ _ 6 shadders shadder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 shortes shorte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ', ', PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 sa'nter sa'nter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 ter ter ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 compound _ _ 36 groanin groanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ', ', PART POS _ 36 dep _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 see see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 49 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 up up ADP RP _ 51 compound _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 rockin rockin NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 59 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 cheer cheer NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 60 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 61 advmod _ _ 61 wrop wrop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 62 up up ADP RP _ 61 compound:prt _ _ 63 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 flannil flannil NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 conj _ _ 67 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 68 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 66 parataxis _ _ 69 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby shadders | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **brush up** *in a quote* | infinitive | ha'r | en sa'nter | | | | at der shortes's Brer Rabbit; ter Brer Fox's house; down *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent sa'nter=Theme at rabbit=Destination | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | ha'r | en w'en *not said here* | | | | dar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'en=Stimulus | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | ha'r | groanin en | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** *in a quote* | present | ha'r | | | | | in de | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in de=Theme | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | ha'r *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | past | a dar | Brer Fox settin | | a rockin and cheer | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer settin=Stimulus | | 8 | **wrop up** *in a quote* | present | cheer *not said here* | wid flannil and en | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | ha'r | | | | | weak *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/29/) - ↑ back to [I. 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