Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 44

"But ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way wid 'im, en den he sot en study, ole Brer B'ar did, how he gwineter squench Brer Bull-frog.

Who acts: ole Brer, Brer · What happens: say, gwineter, make, do, frog · To what, where: way, en den · 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 (ole Brer, Brer), 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	_	6 say	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 Brer	cc
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Brer	amod
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
5	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gwineter	nsubj
8	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 im	amod
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 wid	punct
13	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 den	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 den	compound
16	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 im	appos
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
18	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 study	compound
19	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 study	amod
20	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 he	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Brer	punct
22	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Brer	amod
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 study	appos
24	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 den	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 frog	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 frog	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 frog	nsubj
29	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 frog	amod
30	squench	squench	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 frog	amod
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 frog	compound
32	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 frog	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Bull	punct
34	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 im	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	ole Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gwineter in a quote		Brer		tree rules
3	make in a quote	infinitive		way	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset way=Beneficiary im=Product
4	do in a quote	past	Brer	en den not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Eventuality
5	frog in a quote		Brer		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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/27/44/