Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 40

"Brer Rabbit, he lit out, he did, en come ter nex' pos', en dar wuz de Tarrypin.

Who acts: Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, en, nex pos · What happens: light out, do, come, wuz

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 (Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, en, nex pos), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	compound
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lit	nsubj
6	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 lit	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
14	ter	ter	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pos	compound
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 nex	punct
17	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wuz	nsubj
18	',	',	PART	_	17 pos	dep
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wuz	compound
20	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wuz	compound
21	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	parataxis
22	de	de	ADP	_	23 Tarrypin	case
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wuz	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	light out in a quote	past	Brer Rabbit		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	past	Rabbit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	present	en	ter property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wuz in a quote		nex pos	de Tarrypin	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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