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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 39

"Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in de bucket, he did, en, ez he went down, co'se his weight pull Brer Rabbit up.

Who acts: talk, Rabbit talk, Brer · What happens: jump, go down, co'se, pull, rabbit up · To what, where: Brer Fox, de bucket, ez, weight

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk, Rabbit talk, Brer), 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

punctcompoundcompoundnsubjadvmodamodcompoundnmodadvmodamodcasecompoundoblnsubjacl:relclcaseamodoblpunctnsubjauxpunctobjpunctapposnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctnmod:possobjxcompnsubjconjcompound:prtpunctroot"PUNCTBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNtalkNOUNsoADVhappyADJenNOUNtalkNOUNsoADVsweetADJdatADPBrerPROPNFoxNOUNhePRONjumpVERBinADPdeADJbucketNOUN,PUNCThePRONdidAUX,PUNCTenNOUN,PUNCTezNOUNhePRONwentVERBdownADV,PUNCTco'seVERBhisPRONweightNOUNpullVERBBrerPROPNRabbitVERBupADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 talkpunct
2BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing3 Rabbitcompound
3RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing4 talkcompound
4talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing30 co'sensubj
5sosoADV_6 happyadvmod
6happyhappyADJDegree=Pos8 talkamod
7enenNOUNNumber=Sing8 talkcompound
8talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing4 talknmod
9sosoADV_10 sweetadvmod
10sweetsweetADJDegree=Pos8 talkamod
11datdatADP_13 Foxcase
12BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing13 Foxcompound
13FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing10 sweetobl
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 jumpnsubj
15jumpjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin13 Foxacl:relcl
16ininADP_18 bucketcase
17dedeADJDegree=Pos18 bucketamod
18bucketbucketNOUNNumber=Sing15 jumpobl
19,,PUNCT_21 didpunct
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 didnsubj
21diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 co'seaux
22,,PUNCT_23 enpunct
23enenNOUNNumber=Sing21 didobj
24,,PUNCT_25 ezpunct
25ezezNOUNNumber=Sing23 enappos
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 wentnsubj
27wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 ezacl:relcl
28downdownADV_27 wentadvmod
29,,PUNCT_30 co'sepunct
30co'seco'seVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 weightnmod:poss
32weightweightNOUNNumber=Sing30 co'seobj
33pullpullVERBVerbForm=Inf30 co'sexcomp
34BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing35 Rabbitnsubj
35RabbitrabbitVERBVerbForm=Inf33 pullconj
36upupADP_35 Rabbitcompound:prt
37..PUNCT_30 co'sepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1jump in a quotepresenttalkBrer Fox not said herede bucketvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in bucket=Trajectory
2go down in a quotepasttalkez not said heredown propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ez=Extent
3co'se in a quotepast · do-supportRabbit talk happy en talktalk's weighttree rules
4pull in a quoteinfinitiveRabbit talk happy en talk not said herevn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5rabbit up in a quoteinfinitiveBrervn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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