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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 13

Brer Rabbit see Brer Fox cookin' some nice beef, en his mouf gun ter water, but he take de fier, he did, en he put out to'rds home; but present'y yer he come back, en he say de fier done gone out.

Who acts: Brer, en, yer · What happens: see, take, do, put out, come back, say · To what, where: Brer Fox cookin, de, en, de fier · 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 (Brer, en, yer), 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

nsubjflatcompoundcompoundobjpunctdetamodobjpunctconjnmod:posscompoundconjnmod:possobjpunctccnsubjconjobjobjpunctnsubjparataxispunctobl:unmarkednsubjconjcompound:prtobjadvmodpunctccadvmodnsubjnsubjconjadvmodpunctoblnsubjacl:relclcompoundobjaclxcompcompound:prtpunctrootBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNseeVERBBrerPROPNFoxNOUNcookinNOUN'PUNCTsomeDETniceADJbeefNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNhisPRONmoufNOUNgunNOUNterPRONwaterNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONtakeVERBdeXfierNOUN,PUNCThePRONdidVERB,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONputVERBoutADPto'rdsNOUNhomeADV;PUNCTbutCCONJpresent'yADVyerADJhePRONcomeVERBbackADV,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONsayVERBdeXfierNOUNdoneVERBgoneVERBoutADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing3 seensubj
2RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Brerflat
3seeseeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
4BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing6 cookincompound
5FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing6 cookincompound
6cookincookinNOUNNumber=Sing3 seeobj
7''PUNCT_6 cookinpunct
8somesomeDETPronType=Ind10 beefdet
9niceniceADJDegree=Pos10 beefamod
10beefbeefNOUNNumber=Sing3 seeobj
11,,PUNCT_12 enpunct
12enenNOUNNumber=Sing10 beefconj
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 gunnmod:poss
14moufmoufNOUNNumber=Sing15 guncompound
15gungunNOUNNumber=Sing12 enconj
16terterPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 waternmod:poss
17waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing15 gunobj
18,,PUNCT_21 takepunct
19butbutCCONJ_21 takecc
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 takensubj
21taketakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 seeconj
22dedeXForeign=Yes21 takeobj
23fierfierNOUNNumber=Sing21 takeobj
24,,PUNCT_26 didpunct
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 didnsubj
26diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 takeparataxis
27,,PUNCT_30 putpunct
28enenNOUNNumber=Sing30 putobl:unmarked
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 putnsubj
30putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 didconj
31outoutADP_30 putcompound:prt
32to'rdsto'rdNOUNNumber=Plur30 putobj
33homehomeADV_30 putadvmod
34;;PUNCT_39 comepunct
35butbutCCONJ_39 comecc
36present'ypresent'yADV_37 yeradvmod
37yeryADJDegree=Cmp39 comensubj
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 comensubj
39comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 seeconj
40backbackADV_39 comeadvmod
41,,PUNCT_42 enpunct
42enenNOUNNumber=Sing39 comeobl
43hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 saynsubj
44saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin42 enacl:relcl
45dedeXForeign=Yes46 fiercompound
46fierfierNOUNNumber=Sing44 sayobj
47donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass46 fieracl
48gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass47 donexcomp
49outoutADP_48 gonecompound:prt
50..PUNCT_3 seepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seeinfinitiveBrerBrer Fox cookintree rules
2takeinfinitiveendevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument de=Theme fier=Destination
3dopastenvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4put outpastenenhome propertyvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to'rd=Goal
5come backinfinitiveyerenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6say speech: assertpresentende fiervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fier=Topic
7doparticiplede fier not said heretree rules
8go outparticiplevn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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