Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 1

"Now, den," said Uncle Remus, with unusual gravity, as soon as the little boy, by taking his seat, announced that he was ready for the evening's entertainment to begin; "now, den, dish yer tale w'at I'm agwine ter gin you is de las' row er stumps, sho.

Who acts: den, yer tale w'at, you, evening · What happens: say, take, announce, be, begin, w'at · To what, where: seat, agwine ter gin, row · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, yer tale w'at, you, evening), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gravity	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 gravity	case
12	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gravity	amod
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soon	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 said	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 boy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soon	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taking	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 taking	mark
23	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 seat	nmod:poss
25	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taking	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 announced	punct
27	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 ready	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ready	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ready	cop
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 announced	ccomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 entertainment	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evening	det
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 entertainment	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 evening	case
36	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ready	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 begin	mark
38	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ready	xcomp
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 w'at	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 den	punct
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 den	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 den	punct
43	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 w'at	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dish	punct
45	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 den	conj
46	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 w'at	amod
47	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 w'at	compound
48	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gin	nsubj
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 gin	nsubj
50	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 gin	cop
51	agwine	agwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 gin	amod
52	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gin	compound
53	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 announced	parataxis
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 row	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 row	cop
56	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	59 row	advmod
57	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 row	nmod:poss
58	'	's	PART	_	57 las	case
59	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gin	acl:relcl
60	er	er	ADP	_	61 stumps	case
61	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 row	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sho	punct
63	sho	sho	NOUN	_	53 gin	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	den		now	with unusual gravity; soon property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with gravity=Manner
2	take	gerund	den not said here	Remus's seat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
3	announce speech: other	past	den not said here				vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	den			for the evening's entertainment; ready property	tree rules
5	begin	to-infinitive	den not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	w'at in a quote		den and dish				tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	yer tale w'at	agwine ter gin and sho			tree rules
8	is a in a quote	present	you	las's row		er stumps	tree rules
9	entertain		the evening				nom entertainment «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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