Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 49

"Den Mr. Buzzard try ter talk like Brer Fox:

Who acts: Den, ter · What happens: try, talk

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, ter), 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	5 try	nsubj
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
5	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 try	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 Fox	case
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fox	compound
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	present	Den						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	talk in a quote	present	ter					like Brer Fox	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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