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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 43

Tobe he wuz mighty hongry, en he look in de pot he did w'iles de cookin' wuz gwine on, en dar he see his daddy head, en wid dat he sot up a howl en tole his mammy.

Who acts: Tobe, w'iles · What happens: wuz, look, do, cookin up, see, sot · To what, where: en, w'iles, wuz gwine, daddy head

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 (Tobe, w'iles), 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

nsubjnsubjamodxcomppunctoblnsubjconjcaseamodoblnsubjacl:relclobjconjaclpunctcompoundobjcompound:prtpunctcompoundconjnsubjacl:relclnmod:posscompoundobjpunctcompoundcompoundcompoundnsubjconjcompound:prtdetcompoundcompoundobjnmod:possappospunctrootTobePROPNhePRONwuzVERBmightyADJhongryADJ,PUNCTenNOUNhePRONlookVERBinADPdeADJpotNOUNhePRONdidVERBw'ilesNOUNdeXcookinVERB'PUNCTwuzNOUNgwineNOUNonADP,PUNCTenNOUNdarNOUNhePRONseeVERBhisPRONdaddyNOUNheadNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNwidNOUNdatNOUNhePRONsotNOUNupADPaDEThowlNOUNenNOUNtoleNOUNhisPRONmammyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TobeTobePROPNNumber=Sing3 wuznsubj
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wuznsubj
3wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4mightymightyADJDegree=Pos5 hongryamod
5hongryhongryADJDegree=Pos3 wuzxcomp
6,,PUNCT_9 lookpunct
7enenNOUNNumber=Sing9 lookobl
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 looknsubj
9looklookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin3 wuzconj
10ininADP_12 potcase
11dedeADJDegree=Pos12 potamod
12potpotNOUNNumber=Sing9 lookobl
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 didnsubj
14diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 potacl:relcl
15w'ilesw'ileNOUNNumber=Plur14 didobj
16dedeXForeign=Yes15 w'ilesconj
17cookincookinVERBVerbForm=Ger15 w'ilesacl
18''PUNCT_20 gwinepunct
19wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing20 gwinecompound
20gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing17 cookinobj
21ononADP_20 gwinecompound:prt
22,,PUNCT_24 darpunct
23enenNOUNNumber=Sing24 darcompound
24dardarNOUNNumber=Sing20 gwineconj
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 seensubj
26seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 daracl:relcl
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 headnmod:poss
28daddydaddyNOUNNumber=Sing29 headcompound
29headheadNOUNNumber=Sing26 seeobj
30,,PUNCT_33 datpunct
31enenNOUNNumber=Sing32 widcompound
32widwidNOUNNumber=Sing33 datcompound
33datdatNOUNNumber=Sing35 sotcompound
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 sotnsubj
35sotsotNOUNNumber=Sing20 gwineconj
36upupADP_17 cookincompound:prt
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 toledet
38howlhowlNOUNNumber=Sing39 encompound
39enenNOUNNumber=Sing40 tolecompound
40toletoleNOUNNumber=Sing17 cookinobj
41hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 mammynmod:poss
42mammymammyNOUNNumber=Sing40 toleappos
43..PUNCT_3 wuzpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wuzpresentTobehongry propertytree rules
2lookpresentTobeenin de potvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pot=Theme
3dopastTobew'ilesvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'ile=Eventuality
4cookin upgerundw'iles not said herewuz gwine and en dar and dat sottree rules
5seepastTobeTobe's daddy headvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
6sotTobetree 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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