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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 23

He des rack off, he did, en keep his mouf shet, en Brer Rabbit know'd der wuz bizness cookin' up fer him, en he feel monstus skittish.

Who acts: Brer, en, mouf shet · What happens: de, rack off, do, keep, know, feel · To what, where: en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en, mouf shet), 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

nsubjxcompcompound:prtpunctnsubjparataxispunctnsubjadvclnmod:posscompoundnsubjpunctconjapposflatccompauxamodcompoundcompoundccomppunctadvmodconjobjpunctconjnsubjaclamodxcomppunctrootHePRONdesVERBrackVERBoffADP,PUNCThePRONdidVERB,PUNCTenNOUNkeepVERBhisPRONmoufNOUNshetNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNknowVERB'dAUXderADJwuzNOUNbiznessNOUNcookinNOUN'PUNCTupADVferADJhimPRON,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONfeelVERBmonstusADJskittishADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 desnsubj
2desdeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3rackrackVERBVerbForm=Inf2 desxcomp
4offoffADP_3 rackcompound:prt
5,,PUNCT_7 didpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 didnsubj
7diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 desparataxis
8,,PUNCT_10 keeppunct
9enenNOUNNumber=Sing10 keepnsubj
10keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf7 didadvcl
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 shetnmod:poss
12moufmoufNOUNNumber=Sing13 shetcompound
13shetshetNOUNNumber=Sing18 knownsubj
14,,PUNCT_15 enpunct
15enenNOUNNumber=Sing13 shetconj
16BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing15 enappos
17RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing16 Brerflat
18knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 keepccomp
19'dwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin20 deraux
20derdADJDegree=Cmp23 cookinamod
21wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing23 cookincompound
22biznessbiznessNOUNNumber=Sing23 cookincompound
23cookincookinNOUNNumber=Sing18 knowccomp
24''PUNCT_23 cookinpunct
25upupADV_26 feradvmod
26ferfADJDegree=Cmp23 cookinconj
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 ferobj
28,,PUNCT_29 enpunct
29enenNOUNNumber=Sing23 cookinconj
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 feelnsubj
31feelfeelVERBVerbForm=Inf29 enacl
32monstusmonstusADJDegree=Pos33 skittishamod
33skittishskittishADJDegree=Pos31 feelxcomp
34..PUNCT_2 despunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1depresentBrertree rules
2rack offinfinitiveBrer not said herevn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3dopastBrervn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4keepinfinitiveentree rules
5knowpresentBrer's mouf shet and envn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6feelinfinitiveBreren not said hereskittish propertyvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=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.

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