Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 6

Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," continued the old man, looking curiously at the little boy, "ole Miss Favers wouldn't be bodder'n yo' ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve'y now en den; en it look like ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't be squattin' 'roun' yer makin' dese yer fish-baskits."

Who acts: Ef folks, cup, I, nigger dat · What happens: make, continue, look, not bodder'n, sugar, know · To what, where: der livin, old man, ole Miss Favers, fer ter borry, en · 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 (Ef folks, cup, I, nigger dat), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 folks	compound
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 livin	amod
6	livin	livin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 livin	punct
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
9	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longer	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 trubble	punct
11	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trubble	compound
12	trubble	trubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gittin	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 continued	punct
15	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continued	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 continued	advcl
21	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	20 looking	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 boy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bodder'n	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 bodder'n	punct
28	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Favers	amod
29	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Favers	compound
30	Favers	faver	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bodder'n	nsubj:pass
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bodder'n	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 bodder'n	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 bodder'n	aux:pass
34	bodder'n	bodder'n	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 looking	advcl
35	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bodder'n	obj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 borry	punct
37	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fer	compound
38	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 borry	compound
39	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 borry	compound
40	borry	borry	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 yo	appos
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 sugar	det
42	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sugar	nsubj
43	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sugar	amod
44	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sugar	compound
45	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 borry	acl:relcl
46	eve'y	eve'y	ADV	_	48 en	advmod
47	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 en	advmod
48	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 den	amod
49	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sugar	conj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 look	punct
51	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 look	obl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 look	nsubj
53	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
54	like	like	ADP	_	56 me	case
55	ter	ter	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 look	obl
57	dat	dat	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 knows	aux
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 knows	nsubj
59	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 look	conj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 dat	det
61	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 dat	compound
62	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 squattin	nsubj
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 squattin	aux
64	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 squattin	advmod
65	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 squattin	cop
66	squattin	squattin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 knows	ccomp
67	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 squattin	punct
68	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 roun	punct
69	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 squattin	appos
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 roun	punct
71	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 makin	nmod:poss
72	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 roun	appos
73	'	'	PUNCT	_	74 dese	punct
74	dese	dese	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 makin	conj
75	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	78 baskits	nmod:poss
76	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 baskits	compound
77	-	-	PUNCT	_	76 fish	punct
78	baskits	baskit	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 dese	nmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	69 roun	punct
80	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	could	Ef folks	der livin		tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past		the old man		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	look in a quote	gerund			at the little boy; curiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
4	not bodder'n	would · passive		ole Miss Favers		tree rules
5	sugar		cup	fer ter borry not said here		tree rules
6	look	present	cup	en	like me	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	know		I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not is	would	a nigger dat		squattin property	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.

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