Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 53

"'Deed, en dat he didn't, honey. '

Who acts: en · What happens: not do · To what, where: en dat

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Deed	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Deed	punct
3	Deed	Deed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dat	punct
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Deed	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	acl:relcl
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honey	punct
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Deed	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 honey	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 honey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	en	en dat not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality

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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