Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 40

Man say he ain't keerin', en den Brer Rabbit tuck'n brung it ter Brer Fox house.

Who acts: Man, keerin, Brer Rabbit tuck'n · What happens: say, not den, brung · To what, where: keerin · 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 (Man, keerin, Brer Rabbit tuck'n), 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ai	nsubj
4	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 den	advmod
6	keerin	keerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 den	nsubj
7	',	',	PART	_	6 keerin	dep
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 den	compound
9	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ai	obl
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tuck'n	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tuck'n	compound
12	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brung	nsubj
13	brung	brung	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 den	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brung	obj
15	ter	ter	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fox	compound
17	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 house	compound
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brung	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not den		keerin			tree rules
3	brung	past	Brer Rabbit tuck'n	keerin	ter Fox house	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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