Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 20

"Wid dat dey put out, en dey went promernadin' 'roun' 'mong de cattle, dey did, twel bimeby dey struck up wid de one dey wuz atter.

Who acts: Wid dat dey, en dey, dey · What happens: put out, go, do, strike up · To what, where: mong, bimeby dey

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 (Wid dat dey, en dey, dey), 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	_	5 put	punct
2	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dey	compound
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dey	compound
4	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dey	compound
9	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
11	promernadin	promernadin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roun	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 promernadin	case
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 roun	punct
14	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mong	nmod:poss
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 roun	punct
16	'	's	PART	_	14 roun	case
17	mong	mong	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
18	de	de	ADP	_	19 cattle	case
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
21	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dey	punct
24	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bimeby	compound
25	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dey	compound
26	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 did	obj
27	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 dey	acl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 struck	compound:prt
29	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	compound
30	de	de	ADP	_	34 atter	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 atter	nummod
32	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wuz	compound
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 atter	compound
34	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put out in a quote	participle	Wid dat dey			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	past	en dey	promernadin's roun's mong	de cattle	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mong=Theme
3	do in a quote	past	dey	bimeby dey		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Eventuality
4	strike up in a quote	participle		bimeby dey not said here	de one wuz atter	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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