Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 34

"While he wuz layin' dar, Mr. Buzzard come floppin' 'long, en seein' Brer Fox stretch out on de groun', he lit en view de premusses.

Who acts: en, Mr., Brer · What happens: layin, come, stretch out, light · To what, where: floppin, en seein, view de premusses, de groun

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, Mr., Brer), 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	_	11 come	punct
2	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 layin	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 layin	nsubj
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 layin	compound
5	layin	layin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 dar	punct
7	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 layin	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 layin	punct
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mr.	flat
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	floppin	floppin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 floppin	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 floppin	punct
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 come	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seein	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seein	compound
18	seein	seein	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretch	obl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 seein	punct
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 stretch	nsubj
21	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	flat
22	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 stretch	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 groun	case
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 groun	compound
26	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lit	obl
27	',	',	PUNCT	_	26 groun	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lit	nsubj
29	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stretch	parataxis
30	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 view	compound
31	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 premusses	compound
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 premusses	compound
33	premusses	premuss	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	layin in a quote		en				tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	Mr.	floppin		long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location floppin=Theme
3	stretch out in a quote	present	Brer	en seein			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	light in a quote	past	en	view de premusses	de groun		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent premuss=Product

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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