--- title: "Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Who acts: Baby, en. 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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 (Baby, en), 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:pg2306:5:21 # text = "Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 axin axin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 im im NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 de de ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Tar Tar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sayin sayin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 nothin nothin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 present'y present'y NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 27 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 fis fi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ', ', PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 blip blip NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 tuck tuck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 er er X FW _ 43 compound _ _ 43 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 44 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 46 dep _ _ 45 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 46 compound _ _ 46 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | | Brer | | axin | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on axin=Location | | 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Baby | | | sayin and nothin twel present'y | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sayin=Location | | 3 | **draw back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Baby *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | Baby *not said here* | en's fis | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | en | en's fis *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fi=Eventuality | | 6 | **tuck** *in a quote* | | en | | | | | | tree rules | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/22/) - ↑ back to [II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/)