Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 53

W'en a man go ter see dead fokes, dead fokes allers raises up der behime leg en hollers, wahoo!' sezee.

Who acts: W'en, dead fokes · What happens: go, see, raise up · To what, where: ter, sezee · 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 (W'en, dead fokes), 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	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 W'en	appos
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 W'en	acl
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fokes	amod
8	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 raises	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 allers	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fokes	amod
11	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 allers	compound
12	allers	aller	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fokes	conj
13	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 raises	compound:prt
15	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 hollers	amod
16	behime	behime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hollers	amod
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 en	compound
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hollers	compound
19	hollers	holler	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 raises	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wahoo	punct
21	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hollers	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 hollers	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 hollers	punct
24	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raises	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	infinitive	W'en not said here	ter	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme
2	see	present	W'en		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	raise up	present	dead fokes and fokes allers	sezee	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sezee=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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