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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 60

"Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumberin' 'long, en he lit--kerblam!--right in de middle er de fier, en dat wuz de las' er ole Brer Possum."

Who acts: Possum, en, runnin · What happens: tuck, do, come, light, start · To what, where: start, lumberin, en

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 (Possum, en, runnin), 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

punctcompoundcompoundpunctnsubjparataxisdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctnsubjadvclpunctnsubjnsubjconjobjpunctpunctxcomppunctparataxisnsubjacl:relclpunctconjpunctpunctadvmodcasecompoundcompoundparataxiscompoundconjpunctcompoundcompoundconjconjnmod:posscaseadvmodamodcompoundobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCTOlePROPNBrerPROPNPossumPROPN,PUNCThePRONtuckVERBaDETrunninNOUN'PARTstartNOUN,PUNCThePRONdidVERB,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONcomeVERBlumberinNOUN'PUNCT'PUNCTlongADJ,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONlitVERB--PUNCTkerblamNOUN!PUNCT--PUNCTrightADVinADPdePROPNmiddleNOUNerNOUNdeXfierNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdatXwuzNOUNdeXlasNOUN'PARTerADVoleADJBrerPROPNPossumNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 Possumpunct
2OleOlePROPNNumber=Sing4 Possumcompound
3BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing4 Possumcompound
4PossumPossumPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
5,,PUNCT_7 tuckpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 tucknsubj
7tucktuckVERBVerbForm=Inf4 Possumparataxis
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 runnindet
9runninrunninNOUNNumber=Sing11 startnmod:poss
10''sPART_9 runnincase
11startstartNOUNNumber=Sing7 tuckobj
12,,PUNCT_14 didpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 didnsubj
14diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 tuckadvcl
15,,PUNCT_18 comepunct
16enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 comensubj
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 comensubj
18comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 tuckconj
19lumberinlumberinNOUNNumber=Sing18 comeobj
20''PUNCT_19 lumberinpunct
21''PUNCT_19 lumberinpunct
22longlongADJDegree=Pos18 comexcomp
23,,PUNCT_24 enpunct
24enenNOUNNumber=Sing7 tuckparataxis
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 litnsubj
26litlightVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 enacl:relcl
27----PUNCT_28 kerblampunct
28kerblamkerblamNOUNNumber=Sing24 enconj
29!!PUNCT_24 enpunct
30----PUNCT_35 erpunct
31rightrightADV_35 eradvmod
32ininADP_35 ercase
33dedePROPNNumber=Sing35 ercompound
34middlemiddleNOUNNumber=Sing35 ercompound
35ererNOUNNumber=Sing7 tuckparataxis
36dedeXForeign=Yes37 fiercompound
37fierfierNOUNNumber=Sing35 erconj
38,,PUNCT_39 enpunct
39enenNOUNNumber=Sing41 wuzcompound
40datdatX_41 wuzcompound
41wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing35 erconj
42dedeXForeign=Yes41 wuzconj
43laslaNOUNNumber=Plur48 Possumnmod:poss
44''sPART_43 lascase
45ereADVDegree=Cmp46 oleadvmod
46oleoleADJDegree=Pos48 Possumamod
47BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing48 Possumcompound
48PossumpossumNOUNNumber=Sing42 deobj
49..PUNCT_4 Possumpunct
50""PUNCT_4 Possumpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tuck in a quoteinfinitivePossuma runnin's startvn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Theme
2do in a quotepastPossumvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3come in a quotepresentenlumberinlong propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lumberin=Theme
4light in a quotepastPossumen and kerblam not said herevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product
5start in a quotea runninnom start «event transitive»: poss=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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