Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 48

Brer Rabbit en Brer Fox dey is bofe 'gree, dey did, en dey whirl in en b'il' de breshheap, en dey b'il' her high en dey b'il' her wide, en den dey totch her off.

Who acts: dey bofe · What happens: be, do · To what, where: dey bofe, dey whirl

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 (dey bofe), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dey	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dey	compound
6	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bofe	compound
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bofe	cop
8	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	nsubj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 gree	punct
10	gree	gree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bofe	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dey	punct
12	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bofe	conj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whirl	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dey	compound
16	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whirl	compound
17	whirl	whirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 b'il	case
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 b'il	compound
20	b'il	b'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whirl	nmod
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 b'il	punct
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 breshheap	compound
23	breshheap	breshheap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 b'il	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 b'il	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 b'il	compound
26	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 b'il	compound
27	b'il	b'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breshheap	appos
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 b'il	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 b'il	nmod:poss
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 en	amod
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 b'il	compound
32	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 b'il	compound
33	b'il	b'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 b'il	nmod
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 b'il	punct
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 totch	nmod:poss
36	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 totch	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wide	punct
38	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 totch	amod
39	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dey	compound
40	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 totch	compound
41	totch	totch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 b'il	conj
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 totch	obj
43	off	off	ADP	_	41 totch	compound
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		dey bofe and gree and dey					tree rules
2	do	past	dey bofe and gree and dey	dey whirl in en b'il and de breshheap					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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