Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 20

Well, 'twa'n't long 'fo' yer come Mr. Man, broozin' 'roun', en he ain't no sooner see ole Brer Rabbit dan he smack his han's tergedder en holler out:

Who acts: yer, man, han · What happens: come, not see, smack out, holler · To what, where: Mr. Man, ole Brer Rabbit dan, en holler

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yer, man, han), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 twa'	punct
4	twa'	twa'	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	nsubj
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 come	mark
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 long	advcl
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Man	compound
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broozin	punct
15	broozin	broozin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Man	appos
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 en	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 roun	punct
18	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 en	compound
19	',	',	PART	_	18 roun	dep
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broozin	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ai	nsubj
22	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 en	acl:relcl
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 see	advmod
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 sooner	advmod
25	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ai	advcl
27	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dan	amod
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dan	compound
29	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dan	compound
30	dan	dan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smack	nsubj
32	smack	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dan	acl:relcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 han	nmod:poss
34	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 holler	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 han	case
36	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 en	compound
37	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 holler	compound
38	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smack	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	32 smack	compound:prt
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	yer	Mr. Man		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
2	not see	infinitive	yer not said here	ole Brer Rabbit dan	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dan=Stimulus
3	smack out	past	man	man's han's en holler		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Patient
4	holler		man's han			nom holler «communication transitive»: poss=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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