Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 58

Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

Who acts: Dead fokes · What happens: hist, come, see, say · To what, where: der hollers wahoo, um, Brer · 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 (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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fokes	amod
2	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hists	nsubj
3	hists	hist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 wahoo	amod
5	behime	behime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hollers	amod
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 en	compound
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hollers	compound
8	hollers	holler	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wahoo	compound
9	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hists	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 wahoo	punct
11	w'en	w'en	X	Foreign=Yes	9 wahoo	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hists	obj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hists	parataxis
15	ter	ter	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sez	punct
19	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hists	conj
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sez	obj
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	appos
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hist	present	Dead fokes	der hollers wahoo		tree rules
2	come	infinitive				tree rules
3	see	infinitive		um	ter property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	Dead fokes not said here	Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic

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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