Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 38

"Den Mr. Buzzard up'n tell Brer Fox how 'twuz, en he 'low'd, Mr. Buzzard did, dat Brer Rabbit wuz de lowdownest w'atsizname w'at he ever run up wid.

Who acts: Den, Buzzard · What happens: tell, do, dat, run up · To what, where: Brer Fox, Brer wuz, wid · 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 (Den, Buzzard), 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	6 tell	nsubj
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buzzard	nmod:desc
4	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
5	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fox	compound
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 low	advmod
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 twuz	punct
11	twuz	twuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 low	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twuz	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 low	nsubj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 low	punct
16	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	advcl
17	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	16 low	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 did	punct
19	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Buzzard	nmod:desc
20	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dat	punct
23	dat	dat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wuz	compound
25	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Brer	flat
26	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dat	obj
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 wuz	flat:foreign
28	lowdownest	lowdown	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 w'at	amod
29	w'atsizname	w'atsizname	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 w'at	compound
30	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wuz	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 run	nsubj
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 run	advmod
33	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 w'at	acl:relcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 run	compound:prt
35	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 run	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Den		Brer Fox		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
2	do in a quote	past	Buzzard Mr.				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dat in a quote	infinitive	Den not said here	Brer wuz and lowdownest w'atsizname w'at			tree rules
4	run up in a quote	infinitive	Buzzard	wid		ever	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wid=Trajectory

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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