Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 41

"Brer Rabbit, he hate mighty bad fer ter lose his cow, but he lay his plans, en he tell his chilluns dat he gwineter have dat beef yit.

Who acts: Brer, mighty bad fer ter · What happens: hate, lose, lie, tell, have, plan · To what, where: Brer, cow, plans, chilluns, dat beef yit · 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, mighty bad fer ter), 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	_	2 Brer	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hate	obl
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brer	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hate	nsubj
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ter	amod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ter	amod
9	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ter	compound
10	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lose	nsubj
11	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hate	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cow	nmod:poss
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lose	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hate	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 plans	nmod:poss
19	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lay	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plans	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lay	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 chilluns	nmod:poss
25	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tell	obj
26	dat	dat	ADP	_	28 gwineter	case
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gwineter	nsubj
28	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obl
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	ccomp
30	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 yit	amod
31	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 yit	compound
32	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate in a quote	present	Brer	Brer		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose in a quote	present	mighty bad fer ter	Brer's cow		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality
3	lie in a quote	past	Brer	Brer's plans and en		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Brer	Brer's chilluns		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chillun=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present		dat beef yit	dat gwineter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yit=Patient
6	plan in a quote		Brer			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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