Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 13

Dar he swung, en he fear'd he gwineter fall, en he fear'd he wer'n't gwineter fall.

Who acts: Dar, Nex · What happens: swing, wer', fall · To what, where: en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dar, Nex), 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	Dar	Dar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swung	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swung	nsubj
3	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 en	punct
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swung	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 'd	nsubj
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 'd	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swung	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 'd	obj
10	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 fall	amod
11	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 'd	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fall	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 'd	nsubj
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 'd	nsubj
16	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 en	acl:relcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wer'	nsubj
18	wer'	wer'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 en	acl:relcl
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 gwineter	advmod
20	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 wer'	xcomp
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gwineter	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swing	past	Dar	en		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent en=Theme
2	wer'	past	Nex	en not said here	gwinet property	tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	Nex not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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