Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 28

Come out yer, Brer Fox, en I'll show you de man w'at bin stealin' yo' goobers.'

Who acts: you, Brer Fox · What happens: come out, show, stealin · To what, where: yo goobers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Brer Fox), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Fox	punct
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	compound
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	conj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 show	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 show	aux
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 stealin	nsubj
13	de	de	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stealin	aux
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	compound
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stealin	compound
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stealin	compound
17	stealin	stealin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	ccomp
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 yo	punct
19	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 goobers	compound
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 yo	punct
21	goobers	goober	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stealin	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	imperative	you not said here		out, y property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	show	future	Brer Fox and en			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stealin		you	yo goobers		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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