Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 38

I went down ter Brer Fox house little bit 'go, en dar I foun' 'im stiff,' sezee.

Who acts: I · What happens: go down, foun · To what, where: little bit

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	ter	ter	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	compound
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bit	amod
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foun	obl:unmarked
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foun	compound
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dar	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dar	compound
14	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 foun	nsubj
16	foun	foun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 foun	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 stiff	punct
19	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stiff	amod
20	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 foun	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stiff	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	I					ter Fox house; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	foun		I	little bit					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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