Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 81

"Dat mornin' at nine o'clock, B'er Deer he did met B'er Cooter at de fus mile-pos', wey dey was to start fum.

Who acts: deer · What happens: meet, be, start · To what, where: mornin, de, fum

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mornin	punct
2	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mornin	det
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mornin	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 o'clock	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 o'clock	nummod
7	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mornin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Deer	punct
9	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Deer	compound
10	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 met	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 met	aux
13	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cooter	compound
15	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 de	case
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 met	obl
18	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pos	amod
19	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pos	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 mile	punct
21	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dey	compound
22	',	',	PART	_	21 pos	dep
23	wey	wey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dey	compound
24	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 de	obj
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 met	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 start	mark
27	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 was	xcomp
28	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 start	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet in a quote	past · do-support	deer	that mornin at nine o'clock	de	B'er Deer obl	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooter=Co-Agent
2	be in a quote	past	deer not said here				tree rules
3	start in a quote	to-infinitive	deer not said here	fum			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fum=Eventuality

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.

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