Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 29

"Brer Fox, he grab up his walkin'-stick, en bofe un um went runnin' back down ter der goober-patch, en w'en dey got dar, sho 'nuff, dar wuz ole Brer B'ar.

Who acts: Brer, walkin, un um, dey · What happens: grab up, stick, go, get · To what, where: runnin, dar

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, walkin, un um, dey), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brer	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grab	nsubj
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brer	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grab	nsubj
6	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grab	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 walkin	nmod:poss
9	walkin	walkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stick	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 walkin	punct
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 stick	punct
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grab	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stick	conj
15	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 un	compound
16	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stick	acl:relcl
19	runnin	runnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 runnin	punct
21	back	back	ADV	_	22 down	advmod
22	down	down	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
24	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 patch	amod
25	goober	goober	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 patch	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 goober	punct
27	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ter	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 en	punct
29	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 patch	conj
30	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 en	flat
31	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 patch	acl:relcl
33	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sho	punct
35	sho	sho	NOUN	_	33 dar	appos
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 nuff	punct
37	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sho	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ole	punct
39	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 ole	amod
40	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ole	compound
41	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nuff	appos
42	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 ole	appos
43	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Brer	flat
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grab	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab up in a quote	present	Brer			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stick in a quote		Brer's walkin			tree rules
3	go in a quote	past	un um	runnin	ter obl; down property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location runnin=Theme
4	get in a quote	past	dey	dar		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus

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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