Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 34

"Co'se, Brer Bull-frog dunner w'at Brer B'ar drivin' at, but he know sump'n hatter be done, en dat mighty soon, kaze Brer B'ar 'gun to snap his jaws tergedder en foam at de mouf, en Brer Bull-frog holler out:

Who acts: gwine · What happens: know, do, snap · To what, where: sump'n hatter, jaws · 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 (gwine), 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 Co'se	punct
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frog	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Brer	punct
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Co'se	conj
5	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 frog	punct
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 w'at	compound
8	dunner	dun	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 w'at	amod
9	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drivin	compound
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drivin	compound
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	drivin	drivin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 drivin	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	12 drivin	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 drivin	conj
19	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hatter	compound
20	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux:pass
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 know	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dat	punct
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dat	compound
25	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dat	amod
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 mighty	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kaze	punct
29	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dat	conj
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 gun	nmod:poss
31	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Brer	flat
32	'	's	PART	_	30 Brer	case
33	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kaze	appos
34	to	to	PART	_	35 snap	mark
35	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	advcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 jaws	nmod:poss
37	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 snap	obj
38	tergedder	tergedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 foam	amod
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 foam	compound
40	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 snap	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 mouf	case
42	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	43 mouf	compound
43	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 foam	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 en	punct
45	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 foam	conj
46	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 holler	compound
47	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 frog	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 Bull	punct
49	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 holler	compound
50	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 en	nmod
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 holler	compound:prt
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 drivin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	gwine		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do in a quote	infinitive · passive		sump'n hatter	tree rules
3	snap in a quote	to-infinitive		gwine's jaws	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient foam=Result

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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