Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 25

He make a pull, en he feel like he comin' in two, en he fetch nudder jerk, en lo en beholes, whar wuz his tail?"

Who acts: en · What happens: make, feel, fetch · To what, where: pull, en, nudder jerk

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pull	det
4	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 en	punct
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	6 en	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 comin	case
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comin	nsubj
11	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obl
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 comin	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 two	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 comin	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comin	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fetch	nsubj
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	16 en	acl:relcl
19	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jerk	compound
20	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 en	punct
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jerk	conj
23	lo	lo	ADP	_	25 beholes	case
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beholes	compound
25	beholes	behole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 en	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wuz	punct
27	whar	whar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wuz	amod
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beholes	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wuz	appos
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	en	a pull		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Product
2	feel	present	en	en not said here	like comin in two and en	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme
3	fetch	present	en	nudder jerk and en lo en beholes and whar wuz		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerk=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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