Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 58

"Brer Fox he make like he don't see Jack Sparrer, ner needer do he hear 'im, but bimeby he lay down by de road, en sorter stretch hisse'f like he fixin' fer ter nap.

Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, Jack, bimeby, en sorter · What happens: make, not see, hear, lie down, stretch · To what, where: im, hisse'f · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Fox, Fox, Jack, bimeby), 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	_	5 make	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fox	compound
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	advcl
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hear	nsubj
12	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Jack	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 needer	punct
14	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needer	compound
15	needer	needer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Jack	appos
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 im	punct
20	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hear	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
23	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stretch	advcl
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 lay	compound:prt
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 road	case
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 road	compound
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stretch	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sorter	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sorter	compound
32	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stretch	nsubj
33	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
34	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stretch	obj
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 fixin	case
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fixin	nsubj
37	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stretch	obl
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 fixin	punct
39	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 nap	amod
40	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 nap	compound
41	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fixin	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	Brer Fox			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not see in a quote	present · do-support	Fox			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hear in a quote	present · do-support	Jack	im		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer im=Stimulus
4	lie down in a quote	past	bimeby			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stretch in a quote	present	en sorter	hisse'f	by de road; like fixin and fer ter nap	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hisse'f=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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