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title: Bimeby dey come long agin an' de smart Ellick brush up by me once mo'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby dey come long agin an' de smart Ellick brush up by me once mo'. Who acts: Bimeby dey, smart Ellick. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 23

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Bimeby dey come long agin an' de smart Ellick brush up by me once mo'.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby dey, smart Ellick · **What happens:** come, agin, brush up · **To what, where:** an

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby dey, smart Ellick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:67:23
# text = Bimeby dey come long agin an' de smart Ellick brush up by me once mo'.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	agin	agin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Ellick	Ellick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Bimeby dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **agin** | gerund | Bimeby dey *not said here* | an |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **brush up** | infinitive | smart Ellick |  |  |  |  | by me; once mo | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by i=Destination |

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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.

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**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.

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