Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 44

Den dey all lie down en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey soon drapt off ter sleep, but Brer Rabbit he stay 'wake, en w'en de time come he raise up easy en smear Brer Possum mouf wid de butter on his paws, en den he run off en nibble up de bes' er de dinner w'at dey lef' layin' out, en den he come back en wake up Brer Fox, en show 'im de butter on Brer Possum mouf.

Who acts: you, Brer Rabbit, easy en smear, en, dey · What happens: den, lie down, drapt off, stay, come, raise up · To what, where: dey, en, ter sleep, wake, en den

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 (you, Brer Rabbit, easy en smear, en), 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lie	advmod
4	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	obl
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 en	compound
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 en	compound
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	obl
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 en	appos
11	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 en	conj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 drapt	advmod
14	drapt	drapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 drapt	compound:prt
16	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sleep	compound
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drapt	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stay	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 stay	cc
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Rabbit	compound
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stay	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stay	nsubj
23	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Den	conj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 wake	punct
25	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wake	conj
28	w'en	w'en	X	Foreign=Yes	30 time	amod
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 w'en	flat
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 en	obl:unmarked
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stay	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	obj
33	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 raise	compound:prt
35	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 smear	amod
36	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 smear	compound
37	smear	smear	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 run	nsubj
38	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Possum	compound
39	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 mouf	compound
40	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 run	nsubj
41	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 butter	amod
42	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	43 butter	compound
43	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 mouf	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 paws	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 paws	nmod:poss
46	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 butter	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 den	punct
48	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 den	compound
49	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 run	nsubj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 run	nsubj
51	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 raise	parataxis
52	off	off	ADP	_	51 run	compound:prt
53	en	en	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 nibble	nsubj
54	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 run	advcl
55	up	up	ADP	_	54 nibble	compound:prt
56	de	de	ADP	_	59 er	case
57	bes	be	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 er	nmod:poss
58	'	's	PART	_	57 bes	case
59	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 nibble	obl
60	de	de	ADP	_	64 lef	case
61	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 w'at	compound
62	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 dey	compound
63	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lef	compound
64	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 er	nmod
65	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 layin	punct
66	layin	layin	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lef	appos
67	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 layin	punct
68	out	out	ADP	_	54 nibble	compound:prt
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 den	punct
70	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 den	compound
71	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 come	obl
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 come	nsubj
73	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 run	advcl
74	back	back	ADV	_	73 come	advmod
75	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 wake	nsubj
76	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 come	conj
77	up	up	ADP	_	76 wake	compound:prt
78	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	76 wake	vocative
79	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 Brer	flat
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 show	punct
81	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 show	compound
82	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 Brer	appos
83	'	'	PUNCT	_	84 im	punct
84	im	im	X	Foreign=Yes	82 show	conj
85	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	84 im	flat:foreign
86	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 im	conj
87	on	on	ADP	_	90 mouf	case
88	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	89 Possum	compound
89	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	90 mouf	compound
90	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 butter	nmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	den	imperative	you not said here	dey		tree rules
2	lie down	present	you not said here	en	Brer Fox en and dey obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drapt off	present	you not said here	ter sleep	soon property	tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	Brer Rabbit	wake and en		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	infinitive	Brer Rabbit not said here	dey		tree rules
6	raise up	infinitive	Brer Rabbit not said here			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	run off	infinitive	easy en smear			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	nibble up	present	en		de bes's er de dey lef	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	come back	present	dey	en den		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	wake up	present	en		Brer vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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