Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 55

"Den de water begin fer ter sif' thoo.

Who acts: Den · What happens: begin · To what, where: sif thoo

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 (Den), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 begin	nsubj
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Den	flat:foreign
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Den	conj
5	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ter	amod
7	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sif	compound
8	sif	sif	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thoo	compound
9	'	's	PART	_	8 sif	case
10	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begin	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	present	Den and water	sif thoo					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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