Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 50

Even down ter Brer Wolf done gone en lef' 'im.

Who acts: Brer Wolf · What happens: do · To what, where: lef im

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 Wolf), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 down	advmod
2	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
3	ter	ter	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wolf	compound
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 down	advcl
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lef	amod
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lef	compound
9	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 im	compound
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lef	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lef	punct
12	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 done	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 down	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Brer Wolf	lef im					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent im=Eventuality

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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