Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 15

He could go out en pass de time er day 'wid his neighbors, en come back en set by de fier, en smoke his pipe, en read de newspapers same like enny man w'at got a fambly.

Who acts: dat, neighbors, en · What happens: go out, wi, come back, set, read, get · To what, where: en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, neighbors, en), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 go	compound:prt
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	compound
6	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 pass	flat:foreign
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl:unmarked
9	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl:unmarked
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 wid	punct
12	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neighbors	nmod:poss
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neighbors	conj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wid	parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 en	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 fier	case
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 fier	compound
23	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smoke	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	compound
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fier	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pipe	nmod:poss
28	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 en	punct
30	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fier	conj
31	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 newspapers	amod
32	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 newspapers	compound
33	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 same	nsubj
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 en	acl:relcl
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 w'at	case
36	enny	enny	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 w'at	compound
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 w'at	compound
38	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fambly	det
41	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	39 got	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	could	dat		day; time		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wi	past					tree rules
3	come back	present	dat's neighbors and en				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set	participle		en not said here		by de fier and en smoke and en; like enny man w'at	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fier=Destination
5	read	participle					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past	en			fambly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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