--- title: Bimeby a little pain showed 'is head an' sorter m'andered roun' like… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Bimeby a little pain showed 'is head an' sorter m'andered roun' like he wuz a lookin' fer a good place fer ter ketch holt, an' den a great big pain jump up an' take atter de little one an' chase 'im 'roun' an' 'roun,' an' he mus' er kotch 'im, kaze bimeby de big pain retch down an' grab dis yer lef' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/17/) [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/) / [XV. the Florida Watermelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/) / 17 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 17 Bimeby a little pain showed 'is head an' sorter m'andered roun' like he wuz a lookin' fer a good place fer ter ketch holt, an' den a great big pain jump up an' take atter de little one an' chase 'im 'roun' an' 'roun,' an' he mus' er kotch 'im, kaze bimeby de big pain retch down an' grab dis yer lef' leg--so--an' haul 'im up, an' den he retch down an grab de udder one an' pull him up, an' den de wah begun, sho nuff. **Who acts:** Bimeby, sorter, place, great big pain, chase, roun · **What happens:** show, be, m'ander, wuz, holt, jump up · **To what, where:** head, roun, fer, take little one, atter, grab dis This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, sorter, place, great big pain), 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:pg2306:61:17 # text = Bimeby a little pain showed 'is head an' sorter m'andered roun' like he wuz a lookin' fer a good place fer ter ketch holt, an' den a great big pain jump up an' take atter de little one an' chase 'im 'roun' an' 'roun,' an' he mus' er kotch 'im, kaze bimeby de big pain retch down an' grab dis yer lef' leg--so--an' haul 'im up, an' den he retch down an grab de udder one an' pull him up, an' den de wah begun, sho nuff. 1 Bimeby Bimeby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little 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PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 holt holt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 38 up up ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 45 compound _ _ 42 atter 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NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 er er X FW _ 66 compound _ _ 66 kotch kotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 conj _ _ 67 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ _ 71 bimeby bimeby ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ _ 72 de de ADV RB _ 75 advmod _ _ 73 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 nsubj _ _ 75 retch retch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 acl:relcl _ _ 76 down down ADP RP _ 75 compound:prt _ _ 77 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 80 det _ SpaceAfter=No 78 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 80 punct _ _ 79 grab grab ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 80 amod _ _ 80 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 obj _ _ 81 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 82 nmod:poss _ _ 82 lef lef NOUN NN Number=Sing 84 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 83 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 82 punct _ _ 84 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 85 -- -- PUNCT , 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NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 104 flat _ _ 106 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 108 det _ SpaceAfter=No 107 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 108 punct _ _ 108 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 105 acl:relcl _ _ 109 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 108 obj _ _ 110 up up ADP RP _ 108 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 111 , , PUNCT , _ 114 punct _ _ 112 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 114 det _ SpaceAfter=No 113 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 114 punct _ _ 114 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 108 obl _ _ 115 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 114 flat:foreign _ _ 116 wah wah ADV WRB PronType=Int 117 advmod _ _ 117 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 108 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 118 , , PUNCT , _ 120 punct _ _ 119 sho sho NOUN NN _ 120 compound _ _ 120 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 117 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 121 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | Bimeby | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | head | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **m'ander** | past | sorter | roun | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wuz** | present | sorter | a lookin's fer | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **holt** | | place | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **jump up** | infinitive | a great big pain | a take little one | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory | | 7 | **take** | infinitive | | atter | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Theme | | 8 | **roun** | | a chase | a take little one *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **mus** | | sorter | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **retch down** | infinitive | a roun and kaze | a grab dis and lef leg | | | | bimeby *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Theme | | 11 | **im up** | participle | a haul | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **retch down** | infinitive | a den | a grab de udder | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **pull up** | infinitive | | sorter | | | | a den *obl* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 14 | **begin** | participle | | sho nuff | | | | wah *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuff=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/18/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Florida Watermelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/)