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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 51

"W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'.

Who acts: W'en ole, ole, tail · What happens: get, come, keep, fum · To what, where: dar, wuz Rabbit hol'in, tail, de cow tail, gwine, de groun

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 (W'en ole, ole, tail), 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

punctcompoundnsubjapposflatobjpunctconjnsubjparataxisadvmodcompounddepcompoundcompoundcompoundcompoundoblpunctcasensubjamodcompoundpunctoblpunctcompoundconjadvclobjxcompobjcaseamodoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTW'enPROPNoleNOUNBrerPROPNWolfPROPNgotVERBdarNOUN,PUNCTw'ichNOUNhePRONcomeVERBerADVscootinNOUN',PARTdarNOUNwuzNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNhol'inNOUN'PUNCTonADPterNOUNdeADJcowNOUN-PUNCTtailNOUN,PUNCTferNOUNterNOUNkeepVERBitPRONfumVERBgwineNOUNinADPdeADJgrounNOUN'PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 olepunct
2W'enW'enPROPNNumber=Sing3 olecompound
3oleoleNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotnsubj
4BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing3 oleappos
5WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing4 Brerflat
6gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7dardarNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotobj
8,,PUNCT_9 w'ichpunct
9w'ichw'ichNOUNNumber=Sing7 darconj
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 comensubj
11comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf6 gotparataxis
12ereADVDegree=Cmp19 hol'inadvmod
13scootinscootinNOUNNumber=Sing16 wuzcompound
14',',PART_13 scootindep
15dardarNOUNNumber=Sing16 wuzcompound
16wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing19 hol'incompound
17BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing18 Rabbitcompound
18RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing19 hol'incompound
19hol'inhol'inNOUNNumber=Sing11 comeobl
20''PUNCT_19 hol'inpunct
21ononADP_26 tailcase
22terterNOUNNumber=Sing26 tailnsubj
23dedeADJDegree=Pos26 tailamod
24cowcowNOUNNumber=Sing26 tailcompound
25--PUNCT_24 cowpunct
26tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing30 keepobl
27,,PUNCT_29 terpunct
28ferferNOUNNumber=Sing29 tercompound
29terterNOUNNumber=Sing26 tailconj
30keepkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 comeadvcl
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 keepobj
32fumfumVERBVerbForm=Inf30 keepxcomp
33gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing32 fumobj
34ininADP_36 grouncase
35dedeADJDegree=Pos36 grounamod
36groungrounNOUNNumber=Sing32 fumobl
37''PUNCT_36 grounpunct
38..PUNCT_6 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1get in a quotepastW'en oledar and w'ichvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus
2come in a quoteinfinitiveolewuz Rabbit hol'invn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3keep in a quotepresentole not said heretailde cow tail and fer tertree rules
4fum in a quoteinfinitivetail not said heregwinede grountree rules

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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