--- title: Des den, Brer Jesse, he riz up in his seat, sorter keerless like, an… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Des den, Brer Jesse, he riz up in his seat, sorter keerless like, an' went down inter his britches atter his razer, an' right den I know'd sho' nuff trubble wuz begun. Who acts: den, britches, I, razer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/20/) [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/) / [II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 20 Des den, Brer Jesse, he riz up in his seat, sorter keerless like, an' went down inter his britches atter his razer, an' right den I know'd sho' nuff trubble wuz begun. **Who acts:** den, britches, I, razer · **What happens:** riz up, go down, atter, know, sho, begin · **To what, where:** seat, inter, right den, trubble wuz This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, britches, I, razer), 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:pg2306:48:20 # text = Des den, Brer Jesse, he riz up in his seat, sorter keerless like, an' went down inter his britches atter his razer, an' right den I know'd sho' nuff trubble wuz begun. 1 Des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 Jesse Jesse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 riz riz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 keerless keerless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 like like INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 britches britch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 atter atter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 razer razer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 sho sho VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 38 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 trubble trubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **riz up** | present | des den | | | den's seat and sorter | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go down** | past | des den *not said here* | inter | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **atter** | present | den's britches | inter *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | present | I | a right den *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer den=Stimulus | | 5 | **sho** | would | den's razer | trubble wuz | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | participle | | trubble wuz *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/21/) - ↑ back to [II. 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