Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 41

"Brer B'ar say he much oblije en he bleeve he'll go long, en wid dat dey put out fer Brer Rabbit's new-groun', w'ich 'twa'n't so mighty fur.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, bleeve, go, put out · To what, where: Brer, en bleeve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brer	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
3	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bleeve	nsubj
6	much	much	ADV	_	10 bleeve	advmod
7	oblije	oblije	X	Foreign=Yes	10 bleeve	nsubj
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bleeve	compound
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bleeve	nsubj
10	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bleeve	acl:relcl
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 go	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bleeve	conj
17	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dey	amod
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dey	compound
19	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fer	compound
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fer	amod
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 put	compound:prt
22	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Rabbit	nmod:desc
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rabbit	compound
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 groun	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Rabbit	case
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 groun	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 new	punct
28	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 w'ich	compound
29	',	',	PART	_	28 groun	dep
30	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 en	nmod
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 twa'	punct
32	twa'	twa'	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 w'ich	conj
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 fur	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 mighty	advmod
35	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fur	amod
36	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 twa'	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bleeve in a quote		Brer			tree rules
3	go in a quote	future	Brer	en bleeve and en groun w'ich and twa' mighty fur not said here	long property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bleeve=Theme
4	put out in a quote	participle				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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