Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 9

Brer B'ar, he tuck a notion dat ole Brer Bull-frog wuz de man w'at fool 'im, en he say dat he'd come up wid 'im ef 'twuz a year atterwuds.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: tuck, say, come up · To what, where: notion, dat, wid im ef · 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 (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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tuck	nsubj
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tuck	nsubj
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 notion	det
7	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tuck	obj
8	dat	dat	ADP	_	14 wuz	case
9	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wuz	amod
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	compound
11	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frog	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Bull	punct
13	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	compound
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tuck	obl
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 wuz	flat
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 w'at	compound
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fool	compound
18	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	appos
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 im	punct
20	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fool	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 en	punct
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	22 en	acl:relcl
25	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
27	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tuck	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 come	compound:prt
30	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ef	compound
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 wid	punct
32	im	im	X	_	33 ef	compound
33	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 twuz	punct
35	twuz	twuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ef	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 atterwuds	det
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 atterwuds	compound
38	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tuck	infinitive	Brer	a notion	dat ole Brer frog wuz and en	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent notion=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Brer	dat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic
3	come up	would	Brer	wid im ef and twuz	a year atterwuds obl:unmarked	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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