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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

punctnsubjpunctdetnmod:posscasensubjpunctcompoundconjconjdetcompoundnsubjnmod:desccompoundcompoundnsubjparataxiscompoundobjpunctconjconjcompoundflatamodobjcompoundnsubjacl:relclxcompnmod:possobjpunctroot"PUNCTDenPROPN,PUNCTatterVERBsomeDETmoNOUN'PARTpalaverNOUN,PUNCTBrerPROPNFoxNOUNmakeVERBaDETbargainNOUNdatNOUNMr.PROPNBuzzardPROPNwuzNOUNterNOUNwatchVERBdeXholeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNkeepVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNdarADJwilesNOUNBrerPROPNFoxNOUNwentVERBatterVERBhisPRONaxeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Denpunct
2DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing4 atternsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Denpunct
4atteratterVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 modet
6momoNOUNNumber=Sing8 palavernmod:poss
7''sPART_6 mocase
8palaverpalaverNOUNNumber=Sing12 makensubj
9,,PUNCT_11 Foxpunct
10BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing11 Foxcompound
11FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing8 palaverconj
12makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 atterconj
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 datdet
14bargainbargainNOUNNumber=Sing15 datcompound
15datdatNOUNNumber=Sing20 watchnsubj
16Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing17 Buzzardnmod:desc
17BuzzardBuzzardPROPNNumber=Sing19 tercompound
18wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing19 tercompound
19terterNOUNNumber=Sing20 watchnsubj
20watchwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 makeparataxis
21dedeXForeign=Yes22 holecompound
22holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing20 watchobj
23,,PUNCT_24 enpunct
24enenNOUNNumber=Sing22 holeconj
25keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf20 watchconj
26BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing29 wilescompound
27RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing26 Brerflat
28dardarADJDegree=Pos29 wilesamod
29wileswileNOUNNumber=Plur25 keepobj
30BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing31 Foxcompound
31FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing32 wentnsubj
32wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 wilesacl:relcl
33atteratterVERBVerbForm=Inf32 wentxcomp
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 axenmod:poss
35axeaxeNOUNNumber=Sing33 atterobj
36..PUNCT_4 atterpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1atter in a quotepresentDentree rules
2make in a quotepresentsome mo's palaver and Brer Foxvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3watch in a quotepresenta bargain datde hole and envn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
4keep in a quoteinfinitivea bargain dat not said hereBrer dar wilesvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wile=Theme
5go in a quotepastBrer FoxBrer dar wiles not said heretree rules
6atter in a quoteinfinitiveBrer Fox not said hereFox's axetree rules
7palaver in a quotesome monom 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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