--- title: Fer mighty nigh fo' hours dey kep' up dat racket, an' des ez soon ez… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Fer mighty nigh fo' hours dey kep' up dat racket, an' des ez soon ez a little pain 'ud jump up de big un 'ud light onter it an' gobble it up, an' den de big un 'ud go sailin' roun' huntin' fer mo'. Who acts: Fer, des ez, big un. 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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 (Fer, des ez, big un), 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:pg2306:61:18 # text = Fer mighty nigh fo' hours dey kep' up dat racket, an' des ez soon ez a little pain 'ud jump up de big un 'ud light onter it an' gobble it up, an' den de big un 'ud go sailin' roun' huntin' fer mo'. 1 Fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 3 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 compound _ _ 7 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 kep kep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 racket racket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 ez ez NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 ez ez VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ud ud NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 29 dep _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ud ud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 onter onter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 gobble gobble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 44 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 43 flat:foreign _ _ 45 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ud ud NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 50 sailin sailin NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 54 huntin huntin NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 56 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 57 amod _ _ 57 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kep** | present | Fer and mighty hours dey | that racket an | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ez** | present | des ez | a little pain and ud | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **jump up** | infinitive | des ez *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **gobble up** | infinitive | fer | pain | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | big un | sailin and roun | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sailin=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/19/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Florida Watermelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/)