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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 48

"Ole Brer B'ar, he spit on his han's en skint up de tree, en jam his head in de hole, en sho nuff, Brer Rabbit, he grab de pine pole, en de way he stir up dem bees wuz sinful--dat's w'at it wuz.

Who acts: Ole, de tree, dem bees, head · What happens: spit, skint up, jam, grab, stir up, wuz · To what, where: en, head, de hole, de pine pole

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 (Ole, de tree, dem bees, head), 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

punctnsubjflatflatpunctnsubjapposcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodcompound:prtcompoundnsubjpunctconjparataxisnmod:possobjcaseamodoblpunctconjcompoundconjpunctcompoundappospunctnsubjparataxisamodcompoundobjpunctconjcompoundobl:unmarkednsubjconjcompound:prtcompoundnsubjadvclxcomppunctnmod:posscasecompoundnsubjobjpunctroot"PUNCTOlePROPNBrerPROPNB'arPROPN,PUNCThePRONspitNOUNonADPhisPRONhanNOUN'sPARTenNOUNskintVERBupADPdeXtreeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNjamVERBhisPRONheadNOUNinADPdeADJholeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNshoXnuffNOUN,PUNCTBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCThePRONgrabVERBdeADJpineNOUNpoleNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdeXwayNOUNhePRONstirVERBupADPdemNOUNbeesNOUNwuzVERBsinfulADJ--PUNCTdatNOUN'sPARTw'atNOUNitPRONwuzNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Olepunct
2OleOlePROPNNumber=Sing13 skintnsubj
3BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing2 Oleflat
4B'arB'arPROPNNumber=Sing2 Oleflat
5,,PUNCT_7 spitpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 spitnsubj
7spitspitNOUNNumber=Sing2 Oleappos
8ononADP_12 encase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 hannmod:poss
10hanhanNOUNNumber=Sing12 ennmod:poss
11's'sPART_10 hancase
12enenNOUNNumber=Sing7 spitnmod
13skintskintVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14upupADP_13 skintcompound:prt
15dedeXForeign=Yes16 treecompound
16treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing19 jamnsubj
17,,PUNCT_18 enpunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing16 treeconj
19jamjamVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 skintparataxis
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 headnmod:poss
21headheadNOUNNumber=Sing19 jamobj
22ininADP_24 holecase
23dedeADJDegree=Pos24 holeamod
24holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing19 jamobl
25,,PUNCT_26 enpunct
26enenNOUNNumber=Sing24 holeconj
27shoshoX_28 nuffcompound
28nuffnuffNOUNNumber=Sing26 enconj
29,,PUNCT_31 Rabbitpunct
30BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing31 Rabbitcompound
31RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing28 nuffappos
32,,PUNCT_34 grabpunct
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 grabnsubj
34grabgrabVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 jamparataxis
35dedeADJDegree=Pos37 poleamod
36pinepineNOUNNumber=Sing37 polecompound
37polepoleNOUNNumber=Sing34 grabobj
38,,PUNCT_39 enpunct
39enenNOUNNumber=Sing37 poleconj
40dedeXForeign=Yes41 waycompound
41waywayNOUNNumber=Sing34 grabobl:unmarked
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 stirnsubj
43stirstirVERBVerbForm=Inf34 grabconj
44upupADP_43 stircompound:prt
45demdemNOUNNumber=Sing46 beescompound
46beesbeeNOUNNumber=Plur47 wuznsubj
47wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 stiradvcl
48sinfulsinfulADJDegree=Pos47 wuzxcomp
49----PUNCT_52 w'atpunct
50datdatNOUNNumber=Sing52 w'atnmod:poss
51's'sPART_50 datcase
52w'atw'atNOUNNumber=Sing54 wuzcompound
53ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs54 wuznsubj
54wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing43 stirobj
55..PUNCT_13 skintpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spit in a quoteOleOle's han's entree rules
2skint up in a quotepastOletree rules
3jam in a quotepresentde tree and enOle's headde hole and en and sho nuffvn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hole=Destination
4grab in a quotepresentOlede pine pole and ende way obl:unmarkedvn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme
5stir up in a quoteinfinitiveOlevn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
6wuz in a quotepresentdem beessinful propertytree rules
7wuz in a quoteheadtree 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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