Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 36

No matter 'bout dat, de 'simmon patch 'uz dar des like I tell you, en ole Brer Possum mouf 'gun ter water soon's he year talk un um, en mos' 'fo' Brer Rabbit done tellin' 'im de news, Brer Possum, he put out, he did, en 'twa'n't long 'fo' he wuz perch up in de highes' tree in Brer B'ar 'simmon patch.

Who acts: I, bout dat, ole · What happens: tell, be, put out, do, perch up · To what, where: uz dar des, you, en, wuz, de tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, bout dat, ole), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 matter	det
2	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 matter	case
4	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	compound
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talk	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 de	punct
7	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	conj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 patch	punct
9	simmon	simmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	compound
10	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	conj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 des	punct
12	uz	uz	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 des	compound
13	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 des	compound
14	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	appos
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 des	acl:relcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ole	punct
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ole	compound
21	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	conj
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Possum	compound
23	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mouf	compound
24	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ter	compound
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 mouf	punct
26	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ter	compound
27	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 water	compound
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ole	conj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 talk	advmod
30	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 talk	cop
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 talk	nsubj
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talk	obl:unmarked
33	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talk	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mos	punct
37	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mos	compound
38	mos	mo	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 um	conj
39	'	's	PART	_	38 mos	case
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 mos	punct
41	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	46 tellin	case
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 tellin	punct
43	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Rabbit	compound
44	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 tellin	compound
45	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tellin	amod
46	tellin	tellin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mos	nmod
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 im	punct
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 im	punct
49	im	im	X	_	51 news	compound
50	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	49 im	flat:foreign
51	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tellin	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Brer	punct
53	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 news	appos
54	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Brer	flat
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 put	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 put	nsubj
57	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 talk	parataxis
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 put	compound:prt
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 did	punct
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 did	nsubj
61	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 put	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 en	punct
63	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 did	obj
64	'	'	PUNCT	_	65 twa'	punct
65	twa'	twa'	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 en	appos
66	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	67 long	advmod
67	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	65 twa'	advmod
68	'	'	PUNCT	_	65 twa'	punct
69	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	72 wuz	case
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	72 wuz	punct
71	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 wuz	nsubj
72	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 did	obl
73	perch	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	72 wuz	acl
74	up	up	ADP	_	73 perch	compound:prt
75	in	in	ADP	_	79 tree	case
76	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	79 tree	compound
77	highes	highe	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 tree	nmod:poss
78	'	's	PART	_	77 highes	case
79	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 perch	obl
80	in	in	ADP	_	85 patch	case
81	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	85 patch	nmod:poss
82	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 Brer	flat
83	'	's	PART	_	81 Brer	case
84	simmon	simmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 patch	compound
85	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 perch	obl
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I	uz dar des not said here	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present	no matter's bout dat and de and simmon patch and en ole and ter water				year	soon, talk property	tree rules
3	put out	past	ole						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	ole	en				for wuz	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality
5	perch up	participle		wuz not said here		highes's de tree		in Brer's simmon patch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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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