Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 29

Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down.

Who acts: en dar dey · What happens: have · To what, where: hisse'f

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 (en dar dey), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slap	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slap	nsubj
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slap	nsubj
5	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slap	nsubj
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 slap	compound
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slap	compound
8	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	de	de	ADP	_	10 spurrers	case
10	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slap	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 im	case
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 im	punct
13	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurrers	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dey	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dey	compound
16	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dey	compound
17	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slap	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 en	punct
21	up	up	ADP	_	22 en	case
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 en	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	en dar dey	hisse'f					tree rules

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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