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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 13

Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Wolf he up'n say dat he done got plan fix fer ter trap Brer Rabbit.

Who acts: Brer dey sorter, dey, dat · What happens: palaver, do, say, get · To what, where: Den Fox en, twel bimeby, dat, plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer dey sorter, dey, dat), 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

compoundflatcompoundnmod:desccompoundflatcompoundnsubjadvmodpunctnsubjccomppunctcompoundobjapposflatnsubjccparataxisobjnsubjacl:relclaclobjcompoundcompoundcompoundapposapposflatpunctrootDenPROPNBrerPROPNFoxNOUNenNOUNBrerPROPNWolfPROPNdeyNOUNsorterNOUNpalaveredVERBonADV,PUNCTdeyNOUNdidVERB,PUNCTtwelNOUNbimebyNOUNBrerPROPNWolfPROPNhePRONup'nCCONJsayVERBdatNOUNhePRONdoneVERBgotVERBplanNOUNfixNOUNferNOUNterNOUNtrapNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing4 encompound
2BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing1 Denflat
3FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing4 encompound
4enenNOUNNumber=Sing9 palaverednmod:desc
5BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing8 sortercompound
6WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing5 Brerflat
7deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing8 sortercompound
8sortersorterNOUNNumber=Sing9 palaverednsubj
9palaveredpalaverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10ononADV_9 palaveredadvmod
11,,PUNCT_13 didpunct
12deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing13 didnsubj
13diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sayccomp
14,,PUNCT_16 bimebypunct
15tweltwelNOUNNumber=Sing16 bimebycompound
16bimebybimebyNOUNNumber=Sing13 didobj
17BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing16 bimebyappos
18WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing17 Brerflat
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 saynsubj
20up'nup'nCCONJ_21 saycc
21saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf9 palaveredparataxis
22datdatNOUNNumber=Sing21 sayobj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 donensubj
24donedoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 datacl:relcl
25gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 datacl
26planplanNOUNNumber=Sing25 gotobj
27fixfixNOUNNumber=Sing28 fercompound
28ferferNOUNNumber=Sing30 trapcompound
29terterNOUNNumber=Sing30 trapcompound
30traptrapNOUNNumber=Sing26 planappos
31BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing30 trapappos
32RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing31 Brerflat
33..PUNCT_9 palaveredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1palaverpastBrer dey sorterDen Fox envn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2dopastdeytwel bimebyvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality
3say speech: assertinfinitivedeydattree rules
4dopastdeydat not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality
5getparticipledat not said hereplanvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus

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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