Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 29

Den de little bird settin' up in de tree he begin fer ter sing, en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:

Who acts: co'se · What happens: begin, sing · To what, where: fer ter sing, de tree

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (co'se), 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 settin	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 settin	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 settin	compound
5	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 settin	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 settin	compound
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begin	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begin	nsubj
12	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 settin	parataxis
13	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sing	amod
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sing	compound
15	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begin	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dish	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dish	compound
18	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sing	conj
19	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 dish	nmod
20	's	's	PART	_	19 yer	case
21	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 w'at	amod
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 w'at	compound
23	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 yer	appos
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sing	nsubj
25	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 w'at	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 settin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	co'se	fer ter sing and en dish 's yer		de tree			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express		co'se						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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