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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 2

Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox could er nab Brer Rabbit, but eve'y time he got de chance, his mine 'ud sorter rezume 'bout Brer Wolf, en he let Brer Rabbit 'lone.

Who acts: er times, Brer, mine · What happens: er, nab, get, bout, let · To what, where: en, Brer, de chance

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (er times, Brer, mine), 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

compounddetcompoundappospunctnummodconjpunctconjpunctcompoundcompoundnsubjcompoundconjauxacl:relclxcompobjflatpunctccamodobl:unmarkednsubjacl:relclamodobjpunctnmod:possnsubjpunctamodcompoundnmod:posscaseapposapposflatpunctapposnsubjacl:relclcompoundnmod:posscasexcomppunctrootDeyPROPNwuzNOUNallDETtimeNOUNseeinNOUN'PUNCToneNUMnudderNOUN,PUNCTenNOUN'PUNCTbunnunceNOUNerNOUNtimesNOUNBrerPROPNFoxNOUNcouldAUXerVERBnabVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCTbutCCONJeve'yADJtimeNOUNhePRONgotVERBdeADJchanceNOUN,PUNCThisPRONminePRON'PUNCTudADJsorterNOUNrezumeNOUN'PARTboutNOUNBrerPROPNWolfPROPN,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONletVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN'PARTloneADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DeyDeyPROPNNumber=Sing2 wuzcompound
2wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3allallDETPronType=Tot5 seeindet
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing5 seeincompound
5seeinseeinNOUNNumber=Sing2 wuzappos
6''PUNCT_5 seeinpunct
7oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 nuddernummod
8nuddernudderNOUNNumber=Sing5 seeinconj
9,,PUNCT_10 enpunct
10enenNOUNNumber=Sing8 nudderconj
11''PUNCT_14 timespunct
12bunnuncebunnunceNOUNNumber=Sing13 ercompound
13ererNOUNNumber=Sing14 timescompound
14timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur18 ernsubj
15BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing16 Foxcompound
16FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing14 timesconj
17couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin18 eraux
18ererVERBVerbForm=Inf10 enacl:relcl
19nabnabVERBVerbForm=Inf18 erxcomp
20BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing19 nabobj
21RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing20 Brerflat
22,,PUNCT_27 gotpunct
23butbutCCONJ_27 gotcc
24eve'yeve'yADJDegree=Pos25 timeamod
25timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing27 gotobl:unmarked
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 gotnsubj
27gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 Breracl:relcl
28dedeADJDegree=Pos29 chanceamod
29chancechanceNOUNNumber=Sing27 gotobj
30,,PUNCT_38 boutpunct
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 boutnmod:poss
32minemyPRONNumber=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 boutnsubj
33''PUNCT_38 boutpunct
34ududADJDegree=Pos36 rezumeamod
35sortersorterNOUNNumber=Sing36 rezumecompound
36rezumerezumeNOUNNumber=Sing38 boutnmod:poss
37''sPART_36 rezumecase
38boutboutNOUNNumber=Sing20 Brerappos
39BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing38 boutappos
40WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing39 Brerflat
41,,PUNCT_42 enpunct
42enenNOUNNumber=Sing20 Brerappos
43hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 letnsubj
44letletVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 enacl:relcl
45BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing46 Rabbitcompound
46RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing48 lonenmod:poss
47''sPART_46 Rabbitcase
48loneloneADJDegree=Pos44 letxcomp
49..PUNCT_2 wuzpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ercoulder times and Brer Foxen not said heretree rules
2nabinfinitiveer times and Brer Fox not said hereBrervn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Patient
3getpastBrerde chancetimevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
4boutminetree rules
5letpastBreren not said herelone propertyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme

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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