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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 48

"Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole Brer Bull-frog by wunner his behime legs, en sling his axe on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock.

Who acts: Dis, en · What happens: look, gree, take, sle, put · To what, where: fa'r, en, ole Brer Bull frog, axe, shoulder, big flat rock

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 (Dis, en), 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

punctnsubjadvmodobjccconjpunctcasecompoundoblnsubjpunctparataxispunctobjnsubjacl:relclamodcompoundcompoundpunctobjcasenmodnmod:posscompoundnmodpunctconjaclnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctconjmarknsubjadvclxcompadvmodamodamodobjpunctroot"PUNCTDisNOUNlookVERBsoADVfa'rNOUNandCCONJsquarNOUN'PUNCTdatADPBrerPROPNB'arPROPNhePRON'PUNCTgreeVERB,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONtakeVERBoleADJBrerPROPNBullNOUN-PUNCTfrogNOUNbyADPwunnerNOUNhisPRONbehimeNOUNlegsNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNslingVERBhisPRONaxeNOUNonADPhisPRONshoulderNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNoffADPhePRONputVERBferADJdeADVbigADJflatADJrockNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 lookpunct
2DisdisNOUNNumber=Sing3 looknsubj
3looklookVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
4sosoADV_3 lookadvmod
5fa'rfa'rNOUNNumber=Sing3 lookobj
6andandCCONJ_7 squarcc
7squarsquarNOUNNumber=Sing5 fa'rconj
8''PUNCT_5 fa'rpunct
9datdatADP_11 B'arcase
10BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing11 B'arcompound
11B'arB'arPROPNNumber=Sing3 lookobl
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 greensubj
13''PUNCT_14 greepunct
14greegreeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 lookparataxis
15,,PUNCT_16 enpunct
16enenNOUNNumber=Sing14 greeobj
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 takensubj
18taketakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin16 enacl:relcl
19oleoleADJDegree=Pos23 frogamod
20BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing23 frogcompound
21BullbullNOUNNumber=Sing23 frogcompound
22--PUNCT_21 Bullpunct
23frogfrogNOUNNumber=Sing18 takeobj
24bybyADP_25 wunnercase
25wunnerwunnerNOUNNumber=Sing23 frognmod
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 legsnmod:poss
27behimebehimeNOUNNumber=Sing28 legscompound
28legslegNOUNNumber=Plur25 wunnernmod
29,,PUNCT_30 enpunct
30enenNOUNNumber=Sing23 frogconj
31slingsleVERBVerbForm=Ger30 enacl
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 axenmod:poss
33axeaxeNOUNNumber=Sing31 slingobj
34ononADP_36 shouldercase
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 shouldernmod:poss
36shouldershoulderNOUNNumber=Sing31 slingobl
37,,PUNCT_38 enpunct
38enenNOUNNumber=Sing23 frogconj
39offoffADP_41 putmark
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 putnsubj
41putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 takeadvcl
42ferfADJDegree=Cmp41 putxcomp
43dedeADV_44 bigadvmod
44bigbigADJDegree=Pos46 rockamod
45flatflatADJDegree=Pos46 rockamod
46rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing41 putobj
47..PUNCT_3 lookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look in a quoteinfinitiveDisfa'r and squardat Brer B'arvn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fa'r=Attribute
2gree in a quoteinfinitivedisentree rules
3take in a quotepresentdisen not said hereole Brer Bull frog and en and enby wunner dis's behime legsvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frog=Destination
4sle in a quotegerunden not said hereen's axeen's shouldertree rules
5put in a quotepastenbig flat rockf propertyvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rock=Goal

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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