Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 3

Dey went inter fahmin', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble."

Who acts: Dey, I, troof wuz ter, sto en · What happens: go, speck, come out, kep, have · To what, where: fahmin en, ef, dey, der camp meetin

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 (Dey, I, troof wuz ter, sto en), 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 went	xcomp
4	fahmin	fahmin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	compound
5	',	',	PART	_	4 fahmin	dep
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 speck	nsubj
8	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speck	obj
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ef	flat:foreign
11	troof	troof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ter	amod
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ter	compound
13	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 speck	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dey	punct
17	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kep	obl
18	kep	kep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	conj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 sto	punct
20	sto	sto	X	Foreign=Yes	22 en	compound
21	',	',	PART	_	20 sto	case
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kep	ccomp
24	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 meetin	amod
25	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meetin	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 meetin	punct
27	meetin	meetin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 meetin	punct
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 en	compound
30	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meetin	conj
31	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 bobbycues	amod
32	bobbycues	bobbycue	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 en	conj
33	w'en	w'en	X	Foreign=Yes	36 wuz	amod
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 w'en	flat
35	wedder	wed	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 wuz	amod
36	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 en	conj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 wuz	punct
38	greeble	greeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wuz	amod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Dey	fahmin en	int property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speck	present	I	ef		tree rules
3	come out	present	troof wuz ter		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	kep	present	troof wuz ter not said here	dey		tree rules
5	have	past	sto en	der camp meetin and times en and der bobbycues and w'en wedder wuz		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meetin=Patient

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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