Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 19

"Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de job, but he study en study, he did, how he gwineter git 'cross de water, kaze ev'y time he git his foot wet all de fambly kotch col'.

Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: wuz, study, do, git · To what, where: fer de job, en study, gwineter git cross

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 (Rabbit), 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	_	3 Rabbit	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	compound
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wuz	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wuz	nsubj
6	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Rabbit	parataxis
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 fer	advmod
9	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 job	amod
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 job	amod
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 study	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 study	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 study	nsubj
15	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wuz	advcl
16	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 study	amod
17	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 study	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wuz	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gwineter	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 gwineter	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gwineter	nsubj
24	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 cross	amod
25	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cross	compound
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 cross	punct
27	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obj
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 water	compound
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cross	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kaze	punct
31	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cross	conj
32	ev'y	ev'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	compound
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 git	compound
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 git	nsubj
35	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wet	nsubj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 foot	nmod:poss
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wet	nsubj
38	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cross	parataxis
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 col	advmod
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	43 col	compound
41	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	43 col	advmod
42	kotch	kotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 col	compound
43	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wet	obl
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 col	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Rabbit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wuz in a quote	present	Rabbit	fer de job	tree rules
2	study in a quote	present	Rabbit	en study	vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Topic
3	do in a quote	past	Rabbit	gwineter git cross and de water and kaze	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Eventuality
4	git in a quote		Rabbit		tree 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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