Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 23

"Den Brer Bull-frog, he gin ter git skeer'd, he did, en he up'n say:

Who acts: den, en up'n · What happens: gin, up'n, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, en up'n), 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 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 did	nsubj
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frog	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Bull	punct
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Den	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gin	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gin	nsubj
9	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Den	appos
10	ter	ter	ADP	_	12 skeer	case
11	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skeer	compound
12	skeer	skeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gin	nmod
13	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	9 gin	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Den	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 up'n	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 up'n	compound
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 up'n	nsubj
20	up'n	up'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gin in a quote		den	ter git skeer	tree rules
2	up'n in a quote		den		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	en up'n		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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