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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 47

"Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer Rabbit cut Brer Fox loose des in time fer ter hear Mr. Man w'isserlin up his dogs, en one went one way en de udder went nudder."

Who acts: Brer, onfrennelness, en, en udder · What happens: say, not have, cut, hear, go · To what, where: w'ich, Brer Fox, Man w'isserlin, one way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Brer, onfrennelness, en, en udder), 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

punctnsubjflatobjnsubjauxadvmodccompdetnsubjpunctcompoundamodconjapposflatparataxiscompoundobjamodconjcasecompoundcompoundnmodparataxisnmod:desccompoundobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjflatparataxisnummodobl:unmarkedcompoundflat:foreignnsubjccompobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCTBrerPROPNFoxPROPNsayVERBw'ichNOUNhePRONdoAUXn'tPARThaveVERBnoDETonfrennelnessNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNwidADJdatNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNcutVERBBrerPROPNFoxNOUNlooseADJdesNOUNinADPtimeNOUNferNOUNterNOUNhearVERBMr.PROPNManPROPNw'isserlinNOUNupADPhisPRONdogsNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNoneNUMwentVERBoneNUMwayNOUNenXdeXudderNOUNwentVERBnudderNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 saypunct
2BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing4 saynsubj
3FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing2 Brerflat
4saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5w'ichw'ichNOUNNumber=Sing4 sayobj
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 havensubj
7dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 haveaux
8n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 haveadvmod
9havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 sayccomp
10nonoDETPronType=Neg11 onfrennelnessdet
11onfrennelnessonfrennelnessNOUNNumber=Sing18 cutnsubj
12,,PUNCT_15 datpunct
13enenNOUNNumber=Sing15 datcompound
14widwidADJDegree=Pos15 datamod
15datdatNOUNNumber=Sing11 onfrennelnessconj
16BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing15 datappos
17RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing16 Brerflat
18cutcutVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 haveparataxis
19BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing20 Foxcompound
20FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing18 cutobj
21looselooseADJDegree=Pos22 desamod
22desdesNOUNNumber=Sing20 Foxconj
23ininADP_26 tercase
24timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing26 tercompound
25ferferNOUNNumber=Sing26 tercompound
26terterNOUNNumber=Sing22 desnmod
27hearhearVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin9 haveparataxis
28Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing29 Mannmod:desc
29ManManPROPNNumber=Sing30 w'isserlincompound
30w'isserlinw'isserlinNOUNNumber=Sing27 hearobj
31upupADP_33 dogscase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 dogsnmod:poss
33dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur37 wentobl
34,,PUNCT_35 enpunct
35enenNOUNNumber=Sing37 wentnsubj
36oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card35 enflat
37wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 hearparataxis
38oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 waynummod
39waywayNOUNNumber=Sing43 wentobl:unmarked
40enenXForeign=Yes42 uddercompound
41dedeXForeign=Yes40 enflat:foreign
42udderudderNOUNNumber=Sing43 wentnsubj
43wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 wentccomp
44nuddernudderNOUNNumber=Sing43 wentobj
45..PUNCT_4 saypunct
46""PUNCT_4 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresentBrerw'ichtree rules
2not have in a quotepresent · do-supportBrervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3cut in a quotepastno onfrennelness and en wid datBrer Fox and loose des in time fer tervn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fox=Product
4hear in a quoteinfinitiveMan w'isserlinvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer w'isserlin=Stimulus
5go in a quotepastenup Brer's dogsvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6go in a quotepasten udderone wayvn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nudder=Theme

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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