---
title: En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en B… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en Brer Possum, he lay dar like he wuz dead, twel bimeby he raise up sorter keerful like, en w'en he fine de coas' cle'r he scramble up en scamper off like sumpin' was atter 'im." Who acts: en, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/) / 19

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en Brer Possum, he lay dar like he wuz dead, twel bimeby he raise up sorter keerful like, en w'en he fine de coas' cle'r he scramble up en scamper off like sumpin' was atter 'im."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** en, de · **What happens:** sorter, lick off, lie, raise up, scramble up, be · **To what, where:** cloze, dar, sorter, en scamper, im

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, de), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:6:19
# text = En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en Brer Possum, he lay dar like he wuz dead, twel bimeby he raise up sorter keerful like, en w'en he fine de coas' cle'r he scramble up en scamper off like sumpin' was atter 'im."
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lick	lick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
11	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rack	rack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
22	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	keerful	keerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	nsubj	_	_
42	coas	coa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	cle'r	cle'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	scamper	scamper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	sumpin	sumpin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	'	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sorter** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick off** | infinitive | En | en's cloze |  |  |  | en *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past | en | dar |  |  |  | like wuz | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dar=Theme |
| 4 | **raise up** | infinitive | en | sorter |  |  |  | keerful *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Theme |
| 5 | **scramble up** | infinitive | de | en scamper |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location scamper=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | atter's im |  |  |  | like sumpin | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/20/)
- ↑ back to [III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/6/)