Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 17

"Now, den, ef dat's 'greed ter, I'm gwine on, en ef tain't 'greed ter, den I'm gwineter pick up my cane en look atter my own intrust.

Who acts: ef dat, boy, den · What happens: ter, be, gree, pick up, look, intrust · To what, where: gwine, gwineter, cane en

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 dat, boy, den), 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	_	4 den	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 den	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pick	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ter	punct
6	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dat	compound
7	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ter	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dat	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 ter	punct
10	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ter	compound
11	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gwine	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 gwine	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gwine	cop
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	conj
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 gwine	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ef	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ef	compound
19	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	conj
20	tai	tai	X	Foreign=Yes	19 ef	conj
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ter	advmod
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 ter	punct
23	greed	gree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ter	amod
24	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tai	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 den	punct
26	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	conj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gwineter	nsubj
28	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 gwineter	cop
29	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	conj
30	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 pick	compound:prt
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 en	nmod:poss
33	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 en	compound
34	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pick	obj
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pick	conj
36	atter	att	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 look	xcomp
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 own	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 atter	obj
39	intrust	intrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 atter	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ter in a quote		ef dat			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	boy	gwine		tree rules
3	gree in a quote	participle				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	boy	gwineter		tree rules
5	pick up in a quote	present	den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter	my cane en		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Topic
6	look in a quote	infinitive	den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter not said here		att property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	intrust in a quote	infinitive	den and greed ter and gwine and en ef and den and gwineter not said here			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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