Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 5

Brer Fox feel mighty sorry, he did, but he say he bleeve he try his han' enny how, en off he put.

Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: feel, do, say, bleeve, try, put · To what, where: han, en · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Brer Fox, Fox), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorry	amod
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bleeve	nsubj
14	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 try	nsubj
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 han	nmod:poss
18	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 try	obj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 enny	punct
20	enny	enny	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 try	obl
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 enny	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 en	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enny	appos
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 put	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 en	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive	Brer Fox		sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past	Fox			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	Fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bleeve		Fox			tree rules
5	try	infinitive	Fox	Fox's han	enny obl	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality
6	put	past	Fox	en not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent en=Goal

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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