Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 42

"Brer Fox son wuz name Tobe, en Brer Rabbit tell Tobe fer ter keep still w'iles his mammy cook de nice beef w'at his daddy sont 'im.

Who acts: Brer, Tobe fer ter, nice beef · What happens: tell, keep, w'ile, w'at · To what, where: mammy cook, im · 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, Tobe fer ter, nice beef), 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	_	2 Brer	punct
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wuz	compound
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	compound
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Tobe	nmod:desc
7	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 en	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	conj
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	conj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ter	compound
14	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ter	compound
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 keep	nsubj
16	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 w'iles	advmod
18	w'iles	w'ile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cook	nmod:poss
20	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cook	compound
21	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 w'iles	obj
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 cook	flat:foreign
23	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beef	amod
24	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 w'at	nsubj
25	w'at	w'at	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cook	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sont	nmod:poss
27	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sont	compound
28	sont	sont	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 im	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 sont	case
30	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 w'at	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Brer and Tobe wuz name and en and Brer Rabbit			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep in a quote	present	Tobe fer ter			tree rules
3	w'ile in a quote	present	Tobe fer ter not said here	en's mammy cook	still	tree rules
4	w'at in a quote	past	nice beef	en's daddy sont's im		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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