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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 15

Brer Rabbit, he make like he in a wuss fix'n Brer Buzzard, en he mope 'roun', he did, like he fear'd dey gwineter sell 'im out.

Who acts: Brer, nuthin, roun, fear dey gwineter · What happens: make, mope, do, sell, im out · To what, where: wuss fix'n, mope

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, nuthin, roun, fear dey gwineter), 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

nsubjflatpunctnsubjcaseoblcasedetcompoundoblapposflatpunctconjnsubjconjpunctnsubjpunctnsubjacl:relclpunctcasensubjcompoundcasecompoundnsubjccomppunctconjcompound:prtpunctrootBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCThePRONmakeVERBlikeADPhePRONinADPaDETwussNOUNfix'nNOUNBrerPROPNBuzzardPROPN,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONmopeNOUN'PUNCTrounNOUN',PUNCThePRONdidVERB,PUNCTlikeADPhePRONfearNOUN'dPARTdeyNOUNgwineterNOUNsellVERB'PUNCTimVERBoutADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing5 makensubj
2RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Brerflat
3,,PUNCT_1 Brerpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 makensubj
5makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6likelikeADP_7 hecase
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 makeobl
8ininADP_11 fix'ncase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 fix'ndet
10wusswussNOUNNumber=Sing11 fix'ncompound
11fix'nfix'nNOUNNumber=Sing5 makeobl
12BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing11 fix'nappos
13BuzzardBuzzardPROPNNumber=Sing12 Brerflat
14,,PUNCT_15 enpunct
15enenNOUNNumber=Sing11 fix'nconj
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 mopensubj
17mopemopeNOUNNumber=Sing15 enconj
18''PUNCT_19 rounpunct
19rounrounNOUNNumber=Sing22 didnsubj
20',',PUNCT_19 rounpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 didnsubj
22diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 mopeacl:relcl
23,,PUNCT_29 gwineterpunct
24likelikeADP_29 gwinetercase
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 fearnsubj
26fearfearNOUNNumber=Sing29 gwinetercompound
27'd'dPART_26 fearcase
28deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing29 gwinetercompound
29gwinetergwineterNOUNNumber=Sing30 sellnsubj
30sellsellVERBVerbForm=Inf22 didccomp
31''PUNCT_32 impunct
32imimVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 sellconj
33outoutADP_32 imcompound:prt
34..PUNCT_5 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepresentBrera wuss fix'n and en and mopelike nuthinvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2mopenuthintree rules
3dopastrounmope not said heretree rules
4sellinfinitivefear dey gwinetervn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5im outparticiplefear dey gwineter not said heretree 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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