Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 10

Hit's nuff fer ter fetch ole Miss right up out'n dat berryin'-groun' fum down dar in Putmon County, en w'at yo' gran'ma wouldn't er stood me en yo' ma ain't gwineter stan' nudder, en de nex time I hear 'bout sech a come off ez dis, right den en dar I'm boun' ter lay de case 'fo' Miss Sally.

Who acts: nuff fer ter, gran'ma, dar, ai, I, ter · What happens: fetch, fum down, not er, stand, not gwineter, hear · To what, where: dat, ole Miss, w'at yo, me, nudder, bout sech

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuff fer ter, gran'ma, dar, ai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ter	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hit	case
3	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	compound
4	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	compound
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	nsubj
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Miss	amod
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	11 out'n	advmod
10	up	up	ADP	_	11 out'n	case
11	out'n	out'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	obl
12	dat	dat	X	_	6 fetch	obj
13	berryin	berryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 groun	compound
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 berryin	punct
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 groun	punct
16	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	flat
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 groun	punct
18	fum	fum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 fetch	parataxis
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 fum	compound:prt
20	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 County	case
22	Putmon	Putmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 County	compound
23	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dar	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 yo	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 w'at	compound
26	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yo	compound
27	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	nsubj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 er	punct
29	gran'ma	gran'ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 er	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 er	advmod
32	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 yo	acl:relcl
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fum	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 stood	obj
35	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 yo	compound
36	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ma	compound
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 ma	punct
38	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
39	ai	ai	X	Foreign=Yes	41 gwineter	nsubj
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 gwineter	advmod
41	gwineter	gwineter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 stood	parataxis
42	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 nudder	nmod:poss
43	'	's	PART	_	42 stan	case
44	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gwineter	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 en	punct
46	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 nudder	conj
47	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	49 time	dep
48	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 time	compound
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 nudder	conj
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 hear	nsubj
51	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 time	acl:relcl
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 hear	punct
53	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sech	compound
54	sech	sech	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hear	obj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 dis	det
56	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 dis	amod
57	off	off	ADP	_	56 come	compound:prt
58	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 dis	amod
59	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sech	appos
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 dar	punct
61	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 dar	amod
62	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 en	compound
63	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 dar	compound
64	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 dis	conj
65	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 boun	nsubj
66	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 boun	cop
67	boun	boun	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 dar	appos
68	'	'	PUNCT	_	70 lay	punct
69	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 lay	nsubj
70	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 boun	acl:relcl
71	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 case	amod
72	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 lay	obj
73	'	'	PUNCT	_	72 case	punct
74	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	77 Sally	case
75	'	'	PUNCT	_	77 Sally	punct
76	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	77 Sally	compound
77	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 lay	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fetch	present	Hit's nuff fer ter	dat	ole Miss		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent miss=Beneficiary dat=Theme
2	fum down	infinitive					tree rules
3	not er	would	gran'ma	w'at yo not said here			tree rules
4	stand	past	dar in Putmon County	me		yo ma obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	not gwineter	infinitive	ai	stan's nudder and en and nex time			tree rules
6	hear	present	I	bout sech			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sech=Stimulus
7	come off	participle					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
8	is a	present	I	boun			tree rules
9	lie	past	ter	de case		for Miss Sally	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=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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