Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 39
"Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzard wuz ter watch de hole, en keep Brer Rabbit dar wiles Brer Fox went atter his axe.
Who acts: Den, palaver, bargain dat, Brer Fox, mo · What happens: atter, make, watch, keep, go, palaver · To what, where: de hole, Brer dar wiles, axe
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 (Den, palaver, bargain dat, Brer Fox), 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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 atter | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 4 | atter | atter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 mo | det |
| 6 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palaver | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 mo | case |
| 8 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palaver | conj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 atter | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dat | det |
| 14 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dat | compound |
| 15 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | nsubj |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ter | compound |
| 18 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ter | compound |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | nsubj |
| 20 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | parataxis |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 hole | compound |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 en | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hole | conj |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 watch | conj |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 wiles | compound |
| 27 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wiles | amod |
| 29 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 keep | obj |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Fox | compound |
| 31 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wiles | acl:relcl |
| 33 | atter | atter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 went | xcomp |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 axe | nmod:poss |
| 35 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 atter | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 atter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | atter in a quote | present | Den | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | some mo's palaver and Brer Fox | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | present | a bargain dat | de hole and en | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | infinitive | a bargain dat not said here | Brer dar wiles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wile=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | past | Brer Fox | Brer dar wiles not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | atter in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox not said here | Fox's axe | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | palaver in a quote | some mo | nom palaver «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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