Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 3

"Well, Mr. Buzzard, he feel mighty lonesome, he did, but he done prommust Brer Fox dat he'd stay, en he 'termin' fer ter sorter hang 'roun' en jine in de joke.

Who acts: Mr., fer ter sorter · What happens: feel, do, stay, termin, hang · To what, where: mighty lonesome, prommust Brer Fox dat, en, roun en jine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., fer ter sorter), 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	_	5 Buzzard	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 Buzzard	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buzzard	nmod:desc
5	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Buzzard	parataxis
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lonesome	amod
10	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 done	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 done	nsubj
17	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 did	conj
18	prommust	prommust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dat	amod
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 dat	compound
20	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dat	compound
21	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stay	nsubj
23	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	aux
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 en	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stay	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 termin	nsubj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 termin	punct
29	termin	termin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	conj
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 termin	punct
31	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 sorter	amod
32	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sorter	compound
33	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hang	nsubj
34	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 termin	acl:relcl
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 roun	punct
36	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jine	compound
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 roun	punct
38	en	en	X	Foreign=Yes	39 jine	compound
39	jine	jine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hang	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 joke	case
41	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 joke	amod
42	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jine	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Buzzard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	Mr.	mighty lonesome	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=Theme
2	do in a quote	past	Mr.		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	past	Mr.	prommust Brer Fox dat	tree rules
4	stay in a quote	would	Mr.	en and termin	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	termin in a quote		Mr.		tree rules
6	hang in a quote	infinitive	fer ter sorter	roun en jine in de joke	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termin=Patient

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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