Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 26

De fokes all went ter de udder een' er de track fer ter see how dey come out.

Who acts: De, er, dey · What happens: foke, go, see, come out · To what, where: ter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, er, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fokes	nsubj
2	fokes	foke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fokes	ccomp
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obj
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 een	compound
7	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 een	compound
8	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 een	punct
10	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	15 see	nsubj
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 er	flat:foreign
12	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	flat:foreign
13	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ter	compound
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	compound
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 come	advmod
17	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fokes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	foke	present	De			tree rules
2	go	past	De not said here	ter	de udder een obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme
3	see	infinitive	er			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come out	present	dey		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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