Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 16

Brer Fox dun know Brer Rabbit uv ole, en he know dat sorter game done wo' ter a frazzle, but Brer Wolf, he talk mighty 'swadin'.

Who acts: Brer Fox dun, dun · What happens: know, do, talk · To what, where: sorter game, mighty swadin

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 Fox dun, dun), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dun	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dun	compound
3	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Rabbit	compound
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ole	compound
7	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	8 ole	compound
8	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 en	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ole	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
13	dat	dat	ADP	_	15 game	case
14	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 game	compound
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obl
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 game	acl
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 talk	aux
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 talk	punct
19	ter	ter	ADP	_	21 frazzle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 frazzle	det
21	frazzle	frazzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talk	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Wolf	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 Wolf	cc
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Wolf	compound
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 frazzle	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 frazzle	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talk	nsubj
28	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	advcl
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 swadin	amod
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 swadin	punct
31	swadin	swadin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 talk	obj
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 swadin	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	Brer Fox dun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	present	dun		dat sorter game	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	participle		sorter game not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	future	dun	mighty swadin	ter a frazzle	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent swadin=Patient

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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