Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 40

"'I thank you fer ter tu'n me loose, Brer Rabbit, en I'll be 'blije,' sezee, ''caze you done tie me up so tight dat it make my head swim, en I don't speck I'd las' fer ter git ter Miss Meadows's,' sezee.

Who acts: en, I, sezee, my · What happens: thank, be, caze, do, tie up, make · To what, where: fer ter, you, blije, me, sezee, en

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 (en, I, sezee, my), 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	_	4 thank	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thank	nsubj
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ter	amod
7	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obj
8	tu'n	tu'n	CCONJ	_	9 me	cc
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thank	conj
10	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 thank	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 en	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blije	nsubj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 blije	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 blije	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 blije	cop
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 blije	punct
20	blije	blije	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blije	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 caze	punct
25	''	''	PUNCT	_	26 caze	punct
26	caze	caze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 caze	obj
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 caze	xcomp
29	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 caze	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tie	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 tie	compound:prt
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 tight	advmod
33	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tie	parataxis
34	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	36 make	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 make	nsubj
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tight	ccomp
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 swim	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swim	compound
39	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sezee	nmod:poss
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 en	punct
41	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swim	conj
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 speck	nsubj
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 speck	aux
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 speck	advmod
45	speck	speck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 en	acl:relcl
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 git	nsubj
47	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 git	aux
48	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 git	nmod:poss
49	'	's	PART	_	48 las	case
50	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 git	compound
51	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 git	compound
52	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 speck	parataxis
53	ter	ter	ADP	_	55 Meadows	case
54	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Meadows	compound
55	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 git	nmod
56	's	's	PART	_	55 Meadows	case
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 '	punct
58	'	's	PART	_	39 swim	case
59	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	en	fer ter	you	Brer Rabbit obl; loose property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	future	en	blije and sezee			tree rules
3	caze	infinitive	I not said here	you			tree rules
4	do	participle	I not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tie up	infinitive	I not said here	me			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	make	infinitive	sezee	my head swim and en's sezee			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sezee=Product
7	not speck	present · do-support	I	en not said here			tree rules
8	git	would	I			ter Miss Meadows	tree rules
9	swim		my				nom swim «act 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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