Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 45

Den dey wake up Brer Possum, en tell 'im 'bout it, but c'ose Brer Possum 'ny it ter de las'.

Who acts: Den dey, smear · What happens: wake up, 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, smear), 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 wake	nsubj
3	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 wake	compound:prt
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wake	vocative
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	compound
9	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 im	punct
11	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	appos
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 im	punct
13	bout	bout	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 las	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 las	cc
17	c'ose	c'ose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Brer	nmod:desc
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Possum	compound
19	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ny	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 Possum	case
21	ny	NY	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ter	compound
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ter	nsubj
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 las	compound
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 ter	flat:foreign
25	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wake	parataxis
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 las	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	Den dey					Brer vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	ter		smear						tree rules

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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