--- title: "Well, I tell you, Brer John Henry, de col' wuz so col', an' de kive… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, I tell you, Brer John Henry, de col' wuz so col', an' de kiver wuz so light, dat I thunk I'd make a raid on Mars John's shingle pile, an' out I goes an totes in a whole armful. Who acts: Col, light. 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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 (Col, light), 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:pg2306:66:15 # text = "Well, I tell you, Brer John Henry, de col' wuz so col', an' de kiver wuz so light, dat I thunk I'd make a raid on Mars John's shingle pile, an' out I goes an totes in a whole armful. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 9 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 col col NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 15 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 16 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 col col NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ', ', PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 kiver kiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thunk thunk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 raid raid NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 shingle shingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 44 out out ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 47 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 totes tote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 armful armful NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Col | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wuz** *in a quote* | | col | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thunk** *in a quote* | present | light and dat | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | would | Col | a raid | | Mars John's shingle pile | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raid=Product | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Col | a totes | | a whole armful | | out *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tote=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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/66/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/66/16/) - ↑ back to [XX. the Old Man's Troubles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/66/)