Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 13

Des now, w'en you run in and broke me up, I wuz fetchin' into my mine w'at Brer Tarrypin say ter Brer Fox w'en he turn 'im loose in de branch."

Who acts: you, I, Brer, ter, w'en · What happens: run, break up, wuz, say, w'en, turn · To what, where: w'en, me, fetchin, mine w'at · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Brer, ter), 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	Des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 w'en	det
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 w'en	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 broke	cc
9	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 broke	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 broke	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wuz	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wuz	nsubj
14	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 broke	parataxis
15	fetchin	fetchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 fetchin	punct
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 w'at	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 w'at	nmod:poss
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 w'at	compound
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obl
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 say	nsubj
22	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Brer	flat
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wuz	parataxis
24	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	nsubj
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	compound
26	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	compound
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 turn	nsubj
29	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 w'en	appos
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 im	punct
31	im	im	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 turn	xcomp
32	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 im	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 branch	case
34	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 branch	amod
35	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 loose	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present	you	des w'en			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	break up	past	you not said here	me			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	wuz	present	I	fetchin			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	Brer		my mine w'at		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	w'en		ter				tree rules
6	turn	infinitive	w'en				tree rules
7	im	participle	w'en not said here			loose 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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