Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 31

So Brer Buzzard, he kyar 'im back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a mont' atterwuds."

Who acts: fer, Brer Brer Rabbit · What happens: kyar, walk · To what, where: weak

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 (fer, Brer Brer 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 walk	advmod
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kyar	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kyar	nsubj
6	kyar	kyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	appos
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 kyar	punct
8	im	im	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Brer	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 im	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 en	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	conj
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walk	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walk	nsubj
15	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 walk	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knees	compound
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weak	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mont	det
21	mont	mont	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 atterwuds	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 mont	case
23	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weak	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 walk	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kyar		fer						tree rules
2	walk	present	Brer Brer Rabbit	weak					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weak=Trajectory

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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