--- title: En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Ra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin' down de road--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. Who acts: en, dez. 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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 (en, dez), 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:pg2306:5:4 # text = En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin' down de road--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. 1 En en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 12 bimeby bimeby ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 pacin pacin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 list _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 de de ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 lippity lippity NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 clippity clippity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 clippity clippity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 lippity lippity NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 dez dez X FW Foreign=Yes 38 nsubj _ _ 32 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 33 sassy sassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 34 ez ez X FW Foreign=Yes 38 nsubj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 jay jay NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **wait** | past · do-support | en | En and nudder and kaze *not said here* | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | En and nudder and kaze | Brer | | here | | de road lippity clippity and clippity lippity and a ez sassy jay bird; bimeby *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brer=Theme | | 3 | **bird** | | dez | | | | | | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/5/) - ↑ back to [II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/5/)