--- title: I crope up nigh de do', an' hollered an' axed 'im how he wuz a gitti… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I crope up nigh de do', an' hollered an' axed 'im how he wuz a gittin' on, an' den he broke, an' ez he broke I jammed de gun in de small er his back and banged aloose. Who acts: I, im, riz, ez. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/25/) [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/) / [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/) / 25 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 25 I crope up nigh de do', an' hollered an' axed 'im how he wuz a gittin' on, an' den he broke, an' ez he broke I jammed de gun in de small er his back and banged aloose. **Who acts:** I, im, riz, ez · **What happens:** crope up, ',, holler, ax, wuz, break · **To what, where:** an, gittin, den, ez, de gun, de small er · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, im, riz, ez), 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:pg2306:58:25 # text = I crope up nigh de do', an' hollered an' axed 'im how he wuz a gittin' on, an' den he broke, an' ez he broke I jammed de gun in de small er his back and banged aloose. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crope crope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ', ', VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hollered holler VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 axed ax VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 im im PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wuz wuz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 on on ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 ez ez NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 jammed jam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 37 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 banged bang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 47 aloose aloose NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crope up** | present | I | | | | | nigh *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **',** | present · do-support | | an | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **holler** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **ax** | participle · passive | | an | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wuz** | present | im | a gittin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **break** | past | riz | a den *not said here* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer den=Patient | | 7 | **break** | past | riz | a ez *not said here* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ez=Patient | | 8 | **jam** | past | a ez | de gun | | de small er riz's back | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme in er=Destination | | 9 | **bang** | past | a ez *not said here* | aloose | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aloose=Theme | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/26/) - ↑ back to [XII. 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