Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 13

"Ef I ain't fergit it off'n my mine, I say dat ole Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de big road shakin' his long, bushy tail.

Who acts: Ef, little boy · What happens: not fergit, say · To what, where: tail, ole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef, little boy), 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 fergit	punct
2	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fergit	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fergit	nsubj
4	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fergit	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fergit	advmod
6	fergit	fergit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fergit	obj
8	off'n	off'n	ADP	_	10 mine	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mine	nmod:poss
10	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fergit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fergit	conj
14	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ole	det
15	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ole	appos
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	flat
18	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gwine	compound
19	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	list
20	down	down	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
21	de	de	ADV	_	22 big	advmod
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shakin	amod
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shakin	compound
24	shakin	shakin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	parataxis
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 shakin	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tail	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
29	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tail	amod
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fergit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fergit in a quote		Ef	tail				off'n the little boy = boy	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the little boy = boy	that ole				down property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ole=Theme tail=Manner

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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