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title: Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabb… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' crosslegged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip. Who acts: Bimeby. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, wit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 30

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Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' crosslegged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby · **What happens:** hear, see, crosslegg · **To what, where:** somebody call, Brer Rabbit settin, log koamin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby), 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:pg2306:7:30
# text = Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' crosslegged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	compound	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	crosslegged	crosslegg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	chinkapin	chinkapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	koamin	koamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	de	de	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	outen	outen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	har	har	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Bimeby | somebody call and im and en way de hill |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | Bimeby | Brer Rabbit settin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer settin=Stimulus |
| 3 | **crosslegg** | participle |  | Brer Rabbit settin *not said here* |  | a log koamin and pitch outen and Bimeby's har wid  a chip |  |  | tree rules |

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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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