Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 30

Brer Fox fa'rly to' up de groun' he did, en he jump so high en he jump so quick dat he mighty nigh snatch his own tail off.

Who acts: amble · What happens: ' up, do, jump, snatch off · To what, where: de groun, Brer en, high en, own tail

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 (amble), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 en	compound
2	Fox	fox	X	ExtPos=PROPN	1 Brer	appos
3	fa'rly	fa'rly	X	_	2 Fox	goeswith
4	to	to	PART	_	5 '	mark
5	'	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Fox	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 '	compound:prt
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 groun	compound
8	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 '	obj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 groun	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 groun	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jump	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 jump	nsubj
15	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 jump	advmod
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 en	amod
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jump	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 jump	nsubj
20	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 jump	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 quick	advmod
22	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dat	amod
23	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mighty	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mighty	nsubj
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jump	ccomp
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	27 snatch	advmod
27	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mighty	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tail	amod
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snatch	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	27 snatch	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	' up	to-infinitive	amble not said here	de groun		tree rules
2	do	past	amble	de groun not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groun=Eventuality
3	jump	present	amble	Brer en		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory
4	jump	present	amble	high en		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory
5	snatch off	present	amble not said here	amble's own tail	nigh property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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