Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 25

"But bless grashus, honey! w'ilst all dis gwine on, Brer Fox wuz stannin' at de back do' wid one year at de cat-hole lissenin'.

What happens: bless on, wid · To what, where: grashus, de, de hole lissenin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bless	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 bless	cc
3	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wid	advcl
4	grashus	grashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bless	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grashus	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 bless	punct
8	w'ilst	w'ilst	ADP	_	11 gwine	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 gwine	det
10	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gwine	compound
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bless	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	3 bless	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stannin	punct
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fox	compound
15	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stannin	compound
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stannin	compound
17	stannin	stannin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bless	parataxis
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 stannin	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 de	case
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 bless	obl
21	back	back	ADV	_	3 bless	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wid	aux
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 wid	punct
24	wid	wid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 year	nummod
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wid	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	32 lissenin	case
28	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lissenin	amod
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hole	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 cat	punct
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lissenin	compound
32	lissenin	lissenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wid	obl
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 lissenin	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 wid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless on in a quote	infinitive		grashus and honey		de		w'ilst all dis gwine	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme
2	wid in a quote	present · do-support				de hole lissenin	year		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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