Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 14

Brer Fox 'low dat he want er invite to dinner, but he don't say nuthin', en bimeby Brer Rabbit he up'n say, sezee:

Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: want, not say, say · To what, where: invite, nuthin en bimeby, sezee · 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 Fox, Fox), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dat	amod
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	er	er	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 invite	det
9	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	parataxis
18	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bimeby	compound
19	',	',	PART	_	18 nuthin	dep
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bimeby	compound
21	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bimeby	appos
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Brer	flat
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
25	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sezee	punct
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	Brer Fox and low dat	er invite	to dinner	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent invite=Theme to dinner=Attribute
2	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	Fox	nuthin en bimeby		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bimeby=Topic
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	Fox	sezee		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic

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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