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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 42

Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he mighty skeer'd un um, en fus news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit hollerin' en tellin' Brer Wolf dat de patter-rollers comin'.

Who acts: Brer, you, yer · What happens: bin, tuck up, know, come · To what, where: Brer, fus news, Rabbit hollerin

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, you, yer), 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

nsubjflatpunctnsubjacl:relclxcompcompound:prtcasensubjcompoundpunctnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodpunctnsubjnsubjamodnmod:posscasecompoundnsubjpunctconjcompoundnsubjacl:relclpunctnsubjconjcompoundcompoundobjpunctcompoundconjpunctcompoundcompoundapposflat:foreigncompoundpunctcompoundconjpunctpunctrootBrerPROPNWolfPROPN,PUNCThePRONbinVERBtuckVERBupADPbyADPdeXpatterNOUN-PUNCTrollersNOUN'PARTfoNOUN'PUNCTnowADV,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONmightyADJskeerNOUN'dPARTunNOUNumNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNfusNOUNnewsNOUNyouPRONknowVERB,PUNCTyerPRONcomeVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNhollerinNOUN'PUNCTenNOUNtellinNOUN'PUNCTBrerPROPNWolfPROPNdatNOUNdeXpatterNOUN-PUNCTrollersNOUNcominNOUN'PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing28 newsnsubj
2WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing1 Brerflat
3,,PUNCT_5 binpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 binnsubj
5binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin1 Breracl:relcl
6tucktuckVERBVerbForm=Inf5 binxcomp
7upupADP_6 tuckcompound:prt
8bybyADP_14 focase
9dedeXForeign=Yes14 fonsubj
10patterpatterNOUNNumber=Sing12 rollerscompound
11--PUNCT_10 patterpunct
12rollersrollerNOUNNumber=Plur14 fonmod:poss
13''sPART_12 rollerscase
14fofoNOUNNumber=Sing6 tuckobl
15''PUNCT_14 fopunct
16nownowADVPronType=Dem6 tuckadvmod
17,,PUNCT_18 enpunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing28 newsnsubj
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 newsnsubj
20mightymightyADJDegree=Pos21 skeeramod
21skeerskeerNOUNNumber=Sing24 umnmod:poss
22'd'dPART_21 skeercase
23ununNOUNNumber=Sing24 umcompound
24umumNOUNNumber=Sing28 newsnsubj
25,,PUNCT_26 enpunct
26enenNOUNNumber=Sing24 umconj
27fusfusNOUNNumber=Sing28 newscompound
28newsnewsNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
29youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs30 knownsubj
30knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 newsacl:relcl
31,,PUNCT_33 comepunct
32yeryerPRONPerson=2 PronType=Prs33 comensubj
33comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 newsconj
34BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing35 Rabbitcompound
35RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing36 hollerincompound
36hollerinhollerinNOUNNumber=Sing33 comeobj
37''PUNCT_39 tellinpunct
38enenNOUNNumber=Sing39 tellincompound
39tellintellinNOUNNumber=Sing36 hollerinconj
40''PUNCT_43 datpunct
41BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing43 datcompound
42WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing43 datcompound
43datdatNOUNNumber=Sing39 tellinappos
44dedeXForeign=Yes43 datflat:foreign
45patterpatterNOUNNumber=Sing47 rollerscompound
46--PUNCT_45 patterpunct
47rollersrollerNOUNNumber=Plur48 comincompound
48comincominNOUNNumber=Sing43 datconj
49''PUNCT_48 cominpunct
50..PUNCT_28 newspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1binpresentBrerBrer not said heretree rules
2tuck upinfinitiveBrer not said herenowby patter rollers's fovn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by fo=Trajectory
3knowpresentyoufus news not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
4comepresentyerRabbit hollerin and en tellinvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hollerin=Theme

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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