Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 24

Brer B'ar 'low dat he take de job, en den Brer Rabbit show 'im how ter ben' down de saplin', en 'twan't long 'fo' Brer B'ar wuz swingin' up dar in Brer Rabbit's place.

Who acts: Brer, de job · What happens: take, show · To what, where: low dat, im

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 (Brer, de job), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dat	nmod:poss
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	'	's	PART	_	1 Brer	case
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dat	amod
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 job	amod
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 den	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 den	compound
12	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 job	conj
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 den	appos
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Brer	flat
15	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 take	parataxis
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 im	punct
17	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 show	obl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 show	ccomp
19	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ben	compound
20	ben	ben	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 how	nsubj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 en	punct
22	down	down	ADV	_	24 saplin	advmod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 saplin	compound
24	saplin	saplin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	compound
25	',	',	PART	_	24 saplin	dep
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ben	conj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 twa	punct
28	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	conj
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 long	advmod
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 twa	advmod
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 twa	punct
32	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	37 swingin	case
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 swingin	punct
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 swingin	compound
35	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Brer	flat
36	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swingin	compound
37	swingin	swingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 twa	nmod
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 swingin	punct
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 swingin	compound
40	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swingin	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 place	case
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Rabbit	compound
43	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 place	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 Rabbit	case
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dar	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Brer	Brer's low dat					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	de job and en den	im					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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