Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 34

He did manage fer ter scramble out, but a little mo' en de Mud Turkle would er got 'im, en den he'd er bin made hash un worl' widout een'."

Who acts: honey, fer ter, little mo, er bin · What happens: manage, scramble out, get, make · To what, where: im en den, hash un worl

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 (honey, fer ter, little mo, er bin), 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 manage	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 manage	aux
3	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ter	amod
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scramble	nsubj
6	scramble	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 manage	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 scramble	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mo	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mo	amod
12	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	nsubj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mo	conj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 en	flat:foreign
16	Mud	Mud	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mo	appos
17	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mud	flat
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 got	aux
19	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 got	advmod
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 manage	conj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 im	punct
22	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 den	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 im	punct
24	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 den	amod
25	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 'd	nsubj
27	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	parataxis
28	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bin	amod
29	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 'd	obj
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 bin	acl
31	hash	hash	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 worl	compound
32	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 worl	compound
33	worl	worl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obj
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 een	punct
35	widout	widout	ADP	_	36 een	case
36	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 worl	appos
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 een	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 manage	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	manage	past · do-support	honey		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scramble out	present	fer ter		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	would	a little mo and en	im en den	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer den=Stimulus
4	make	participle	er bin not said here	hash un worl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worl=Product

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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