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title: Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin' on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin'. Who acts: we, steps. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 99

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Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin' on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin'.

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**Who acts:** we, steps · **What happens:** hear, come · **To what, where:** young fellers

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, steps), 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:pg2306:46:99
# text = Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin' on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin'.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	peazzer	peazzer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fellers	feller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	strops	strop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	sodes	sode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	draggin	draggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	flo	flo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	',	',	PART	POS	_	32	dep	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
36	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	rattlin	rattlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | we |  |  |  |  | Bimeby *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | present | steps on de peazzer and en | young fellers  a couple and wid strops on der shoulders and en der sodes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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