Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 3

Dar's ole Brer Fox, he des wheel 'roun' en fetch his flank one swipe wid 'is tongue en he'd be koam up; en Brer Rabbit, he des spit on his han' en twis' it 'roun' 'mongst de roots er his years en his ha'r'd be roach.

Who acts: Fox, ole Brer Fox, en, years, ha'r · What happens: de, fetch, be, koam up, spit, roun · To what, where: wheel, flank, tongue en, Fox, han, roach

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, ole Brer Fox, en, years), 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	Dar	Dar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Dar	case
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fox	amod
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	compound
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 en	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 des	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 des	nsubj
8	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Fox	acl:relcl
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 des	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 roun	punct
11	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheel	appos
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 roun	punct
13	en	en	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 des	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flank	nmod:poss
16	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 wid	nummod
18	swipe	swipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wid	compound
19	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 wid	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 en	cop
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 en	compound
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 koam	nsubj
25	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 koam	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 koam	aux:pass
27	koam	koam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 en	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 koam	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 en	punct
30	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 roun	nsubj
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 en	appos
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Brer	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spit	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spit	nsubj
35	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spit	det
36	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 roun	nsubj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 han	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 han	nmod:poss
39	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spit	nmod
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 twis	punct
41	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 twis	compound
42	twis	twi	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 han	nmod
43	'	's	PART	_	42 twis	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 roun	nsubj
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 roun	punct
46	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 en	parataxis
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 roun	punct
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	55 en	punct
49	mongst	mongst	ADP	_	51 roots	case
50	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	51 roots	nmod
51	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 en	obl
52	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	55 en	advmod
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 years	nmod:poss
54	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 en	nsubj
55	en	en	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 roun	conj
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 ha'r	nmod:poss
57	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 roach	nsubj
58	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 roach	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 roach	cop
60	roach	roach	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 en	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 en	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	de	present	Fox	wheel			tree rules
2	fetch	infinitive	Fox not said here	Fox's flank			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent flank=Beneficiary wid=Theme
3	is a	present	Dar's ole Brer Fox	tongue en			tree rules
4	koam up	would · passive		Fox			tree rules
5	spit		Fox		Fox's han 's en twis		tree rules
6	roun		en				tree rules
7	en	past	Fox's years			mongst roots de	tree rules
8	is a	would	Fox's ha'r	roach			tree 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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