Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 6

Brer Rabbit know mighty well dat Miss Cow won't give 'im no milk, kaze she done 'fuse 'im mo'n once, en w'en his ole 'oman wuz sick, at dat.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: know, not give, do · To what, where: fuse im mo'n

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 know	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mighty	mighty	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 know	advmod
6	dat	dat	ADP	_	8 Cow	case
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cow	compound
8	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obl
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 give	advmod
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	parataxis
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
13	im	im	ADP	_	15 milk	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 milk	det
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kaze	punct
17	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 milk	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
19	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 give	parataxis
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fuse	punct
21	fuse	fuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mo'n	compound
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fuse	punct
23	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mo'n	amod
24	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 done	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl
28	w'en	w'en	X	Foreign=Yes	30 ole	dep
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ole	nmod:poss
30	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wuz	compound
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 ole	punct
32	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wuz	compound
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 en	nmod
34	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wuz	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dat	punct
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 dat	case
37	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sick	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	Brer		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not give	future			dat Miss Cow	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	do	past	Brer	fuse im mo'n	im no milk and kaze; en ole oman wuz obl; once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo'n=Eventuality

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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