Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 42

Den dey went down ter de spring wid Brer Possum, en sho nuff de butter done gone.

Who acts: Den dey · What happens: go down, do · To what, where: ter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den dey), 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dey	compound
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	de	de	ADP	_	10 Possum	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Possum	nsubj
8	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Possum	amod
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Possum	compound
10	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Possum	conj
13	sho	sho	X	_	14 nuff	compound
14	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Possum	conj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 nuff	flat:foreign
16	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nuff	conj
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
18	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 done	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	Den dey	ter				de wid Brer Possum and en and sho nuff and butter; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	do	participle	Den dey not said here					gone property	vn act-114-1 «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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