Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 9

He ain't bin dar long, twel sho' enuff, yer come Brer Fox thoo de woods, singing like a nigger at a frolic.

Who acts: Fox, yer · What happens: not bin, come, sing · To what, where: dar, Brer, frolic

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 (Fox, yer), 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	4 bin	nsubj
2	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bin	advmod
4	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obj
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dar	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sho	punct
8	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sho	compound
9	sho	sho	NOUN	_	5 dar	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 enuff	punct
11	enuff	enuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sho	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	conj
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	flat
17	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woods	compound
18	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woods	compound
19	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Brer	list
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 singing	punct
21	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 come	advcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 nigger	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 nigger	det
24	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 frolic	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 frolic	det
27	frolic	frolic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bin		Fox	dar			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=Theme
2	come	present	yer	Brer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	yer not said here		a frolic	like a nigger	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at frolic=Location

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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