Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 32

Brer Fox he lit out atter 'im, he did, en he push Brer Rabbit so close dat it wuz 'bout all he could do fer ter git in a holler tree.

Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, en · What happens: light out, do, push · To what, where: atter, Brer Rabbit, fer ter git, holler tree

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 Fox, Fox, en), 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	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 im	punct
8	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 atter	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	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	4 lit	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 push	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 push	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 push	nsubj
15	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 did	conj
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Rabbit	compound
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 push	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 close	advmod
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 push	advmod
20	dat	dat	ADP	_	22 wuz	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wuz	nsubj
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 wuz	punct
24	bout	bout	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 wuz	nmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 all	acl:relcl
29	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 git	amod
30	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 git	compound
31	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 tree	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
34	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tree	compound
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 git	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	light out	past	Brer Fox	atter and im		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Product
2	do	past	Fox			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	infinitive	en	Brer Rabbit		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
4	do	could	en	fer ter git	a holler tree	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=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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