Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 2

Brer Tarrypin done heerd 'im comin', en he 'low ter hisse'f dat he'd sorter keep one eye open; but Brer Fox wuz monstus perlite, en he open up de confab, he did, like he ain't see Brer Tarrypin sence de las' freshit.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: keep, open up, not be · To what, where: one eye, en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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	4 heerd	compound
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heerd	amod
4	heerd	heerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dat	nsubj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 heerd	punct
6	im	im	X	_	9 en	compound
7	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 en	compound
8	',	',	PART	_	7 comin	dep
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dat	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dat	nsubj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 dat	punct
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hisse'f	amod
13	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hisse'f	compound
14	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dat	compound
15	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 'd	nsubj
17	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dat	acl:relcl
18	sorter	sorter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 'd	xcomp
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 'd	xcomp
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 eye	nummod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 see	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 did	cc
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 did	nsubj
26	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Brer	flat
27	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 monstus	compound
28	monstus	monstus	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 perlite	compound
29	perlite	perlite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Brer	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 en	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Brer	appos
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 open	nsubj
33	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	31 en	acl:relcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 open	compound:prt
35	de	de	ADP	_	36 confab	case
36	confab	confab	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 did	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 see	aux
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 see	punct
41	like	like	SCONJ	_	45 see	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 see	nsubj
43	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 see	cop
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 see	advmod
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dat	conj
46	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 sence	compound
47	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Brer	flat
48	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 see	obj
49	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	45 see	obj
50	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 freshit	nmod:poss
51	'	's	PART	_	50 las	case
52	freshit	freshit	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 see	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive		one eye	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	open up	present	Brer	en not said here	de confab	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient
3	not is	past · do-support	Brer		see property	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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