Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 35

He make his livin' findin' bee trees, en de way he fine um he plant 'im some 'simmon-trees, w'ich de bees dey'd come ter suck de 'simmons en den ole Brer B'ar he'd watch um whar dey'd go, en den he'd be mighty ap' fer ter come up wid um.

Who acts: Brer, dey, ter, um whar dey, fer ter · What happens: make, plant, come, suck, watch, go · To what, where: livin, de way, bees, de, en den, mighty ap

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 (Brer, dey, ter, um whar dey), 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 livin	nmod:poss
4	livin	livin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 findin	punct
6	findin	findin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 findin	punct
8	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 livin	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 en	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	conj
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 way	compound
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 plant	nsubj
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plant	compound
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 plant	nsubj
18	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	acl:relcl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 trees	punct
20	im	im	ADP	_	25 trees	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 trees	det
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 trees	punct
23	simmon	simmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trees	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 simmon	punct
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 plant	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 w'ich	punct
27	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trees	conj
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 trees	conj
29	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 trees	conj
30	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bees	acl:relcl
33	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 suck	nsubj
34	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
35	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 suck	obj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 simmons	punct
37	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 suck	obl
38	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ole	amod
39	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ole	compound
40	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 simmons	nmod
41	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 ole	appos
42	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Brer	flat
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 watch	nsubj
44	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 watch	aux
45	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 ole	parataxis
46	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dey	compound
47	whar	whar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dey	amod
48	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	nsubj
49	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 go	aux
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 watch	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 den	punct
52	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 den	compound
53	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	obl
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 ap	nsubj
55	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 ap	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 ap	cop
57	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 ap	amod
58	ap	AP	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 den	nmod
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 ap	punct
60	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	61 ter	amod
61	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 come	nsubj
62	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 ap	parataxis
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 come	compound:prt
64	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 um	amod
65	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 come	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	Brer	Brer's livin		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livin=Product
2	plant		Brer	de way not said here		tree rules
3	come	would	dey	bees not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bee=Theme
4	suck	infinitive	ter	de	simmons en den ole obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent de=Source
5	watch	would	Brer			tree rules
6	go	would	um whar dey	en den		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	would	Brer	mighty ap		tree rules
8	come up	present	fer ter	wid um		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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