Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 26

Eave-drappers don't hear no good er deyse'f, en de way Brer Fox wuz 'bused dat day wuz a caution.

Who acts: Eave drappers · What happens: not hear, bus · To what, where: good er deyse'f, way Brer Fox wuz

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: who acts (Eave drappers), 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	Eave	eave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drappers	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Eave	punct
3	drappers	drapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 deyse'f	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deyse'f	amod
9	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deyse'f	compound
10	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deyse'f	conj
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 way	compound
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wuz	compound
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wuz	compound
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wuz	compound
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	nmod
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 wuz	punct
19	bused	bus	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wuz	acl
20	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bused	obl:unmarked
22	wuz	wuz	ADP	_	24 caution	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 caution	det
24	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bused	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · do-support	Eave drappers	no good er deyse'f and en way Brer Fox wuz					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deyse'f=Stimulus
2	bus	participle		way Brer Fox wuz not said here			day	wuz a caution	vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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