Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 42

I comes back en I fines you at de 'ole en Brer Rabbit ain't in dar,' sezee. '

Who acts: I · What happens: come back, fines · To what, where: en, you, de

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
4	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fines	nsubj
6	fines	fines	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fines	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 de	case
9	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fines	obl
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
11	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 en	amod
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ai	nsubj
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 en	appos
15	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fines	parataxis
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 dar	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 dar	case
18	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ai	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sezee	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 sezee	punct
21	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dar	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	I	en					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fines	present	I	you		de			tree rules

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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