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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 39

Brer Rabbit, he say dat if Brer Wolf b'leeve he got de fishes, den he give Brer Wolf lief fer ter kill de bes' cow he got.

Who acts: Brer, Wolf b'leeve, den · What happens: say, get, give · To what, where: dat, de fishes, fer ter kill, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, Wolf b'leeve, den), 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

nsubjflatpunctnsubjobjmarkcompoundcompoundnsubjnsubjccompamodobjpunctnsubjnsubjconjcompoundcompoundnmod:descamodcompoundobjflat:foreignnmod:posscaseobjnsubjacl:relclpunctrootBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCThePRONsayVERBdatNOUNifSCONJBrerPROPNWolfPROPNb'leeveNOUNhePRONgotVERBdeADJfishesNOUN,PUNCTdenNOUNhePRONgiveVERBBrerPROPNWolfPROPNliefNOUNferADJterNOUNkillNOUNdeXbesNOUN'PARTcowNOUNhePRONgotVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing5 saynsubj
2RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Brerflat
3,,PUNCT_1 Brerpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 saynsubj
5saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6datdatNOUNNumber=Sing5 sayobj
7ififSCONJ_12 gotmark
8BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing9 Wolfcompound
9WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing10 b'leevecompound
10b'leeveb'leeveNOUNNumber=Sing12 gotnsubj
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 gotnsubj
12gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 sayccomp
13dedeADJDegree=Pos14 fishesamod
14fishesfishNOUNNumber=Plur12 gotobj
15,,PUNCT_18 givepunct
16dendenNOUNNumber=Sing18 givensubj
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 givensubj
18givegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 gotconj
19BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing20 Wolfcompound
20WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing21 liefcompound
21liefliefNOUNNumber=Sing22 fernmod:desc
22ferfADJDegree=Cmp24 killamod
23terterNOUNNumber=Sing24 killcompound
24killkillNOUNNumber=Sing18 giveobj
25dedeXForeign=Yes24 killflat:foreign
26besbeNOUNNumber=Plur28 cownmod:poss
27''sPART_26 bescase
28cowcowNOUNNumber=Sing18 giveobj
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 gotnsubj
30gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 cowacl:relcl
31..PUNCT_5 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentBrerdattree rules
2get a condition, not said to happenpastWolf b'leevede fishesvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
3givepastdenfer ter killvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kill=Recipient cow=Theme
4getpastBrerbes's cow not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

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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