Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 6

Brer B'ar, he holp*1 Miss Meadows bring de wood, Brer Fox, he men' de fier, Brer Wolf, he kep' de dogs off, Brer Rabbit, he grease de bottom er de plates fer ter keep de candy fum stickin', en Brer Tarrypin, he klum up in a cheer, en say he'd watch en see dat de 'lasses didn't bile over.

Who acts: er, Brer, bottom de plates, de candy, en, lasses · What happens: holp, bring, fier, kep off, grease, keep · To what, where: de wood, dogs, stickin en, cheer, en, dat de · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (er, Brer, bottom de plates, de candy), 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	10 bring	nsubj
2	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 holp	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holp	nsubj
5	holp	holp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	appos
6	*	*	PUNCT	_	9 Meadows	punct
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 Miss	nummod
8	Miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Meadows	compound
9	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bring	nsubj
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 wood	compound
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Fox	punct
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fox	compound
15	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wood	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fier	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fier	nsubj
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fier	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 men	case
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 fier	compound
21	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wood	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Brer	punct
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fier	appos
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kep	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kep	nsubj
27	kep	kep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 say	advcl
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 de	punct
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 dogs	nmod
30	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kep	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	27 kep	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Rabbit	punct
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Rabbit	compound
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 kep	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grease	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grease	nsubj
37	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Rabbit	appos
38	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	37 grease	flat:foreign
39	bottom	bottom	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 plates	amod
40	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 de	compound
41	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plates	compound
42	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 keep	nsubj
43	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 ter	amod
44	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 plates	conj
45	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 grease	parataxis
46	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 candy	amod
47	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fum	nsubj
48	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 keep	ccomp
49	stickin	stickin	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 en	compound
50	',	',	PART	_	49 stickin	dep
51	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fum	obj
52	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 en	appos
53	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Brer	flat
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 klum	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 klum	nsubj
56	klum	klum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Rabbit	appos
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 klum	compound:prt
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 cheer	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 cheer	det
60	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 klum	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 en	punct
62	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 cheer	conj
63	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	advcl
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 watch	nsubj
65	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 watch	aux
66	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 say	ccomp
67	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 watch	obj
68	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 watch	xcomp
69	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 de	compound
70	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 see	obj
71	'	'	PUNCT	_	70 de	punct
72	lasses	lass	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 bile	nsubj
73	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 bile	aux
74	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	75 bile	advmod
75	bile	bile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 see	ccomp
76	over	over	ADV	_	75 bile	advmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	holp		er				tree rules
2	bring	present	Brer	de wood and Brer Fox and men's de fier			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
3	fier		er				tree rules
4	kep off	present	er	dogs de		Brer Rabbit obl	tree rules
5	grease		er				tree rules
6	keep	present	bottom de plates and fer ter				tree rules
7	fum	infinitive	de candy	stickin en			tree rules
8	klum up		er		a cheer and en		tree rules
9	say speech: assert	present	Brer not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	watch	would	er	en			tree rules
11	see	infinitive	en not said here	dat de			tree rules
12	not bile over	past · do-support	lasses			over 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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