Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 52

De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on spreadin'.

Who acts: den fokes, en · What happens: tuck up, hit, keep · To what, where: cheat, spreadin

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 (den fokes, en), 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	X	Foreign=Yes	2 creeturs	compound
2	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cheat	nsubj
3	'	's	PART	_	2 creeturs	case
4	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheat	compound
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheat	compound
6	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tuck	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 den	compound
9	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fokes	compound
10	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tuck	nsubj
11	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cheat	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tuck	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 tuck	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hit	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hit	nsubj
16	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tuck	advcl
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hit	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 spreadin	case
19	spreadin	spreadin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obl
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 spreadin	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cheat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tuck up	present	den fokes	cheat		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hit	past	en			tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	en not said here		spreadin	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on spreadin=Location

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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