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title: Bimeby he draw in a long puff, en den let hit out in a cloud, en squ… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby he draw in a long puff, en den let hit out in a cloud, en squar hisse'f back en holler out, he did: Who acts: Bimeby, den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 67

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Bimeby he draw in a long puff, en den let hit out in a cloud, en squar hisse'f back en holler out, he did:

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, den · **What happens:** draw, hit out, do · **To what, where:** long puff, en den, cloud

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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, den), 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:pg2306:9:67
# text = Bimeby he draw in a long puff, en den let hit out in a cloud, en squar hisse'f back en holler out, he did:
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	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	squar	squar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | infinitive | Bimeby |  |  | a long puff |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in puff=Destination |
| 2 | **hit out** | past · passive |  | en den |  | a cloud |  | squar hisse'f *obl*; en holler *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in cloud=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | past | den |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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