Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 44

Miss Fox, she git mighty mad w'en she fine she cookin' her ole man head, en she call up de dogs, she did, en sickt em on Brer Rabbit; en ole Miss Fox en Tobe en de dogs, dey push Brer Rabbit so close dat he hatter take a holler tree.

Who acts: gwine, Miss Fox, ole man head, head, en, ole en Tobe en · What happens: w'en, fine, call up, do, en, push · To what, where: she cookin, de dogs, sickt em, Brer, Brer Rabbit, holler tree

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 (gwine, Miss Fox, ole man head, head), 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	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 w'en	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 w'en	nsubj
5	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 w'en	nsubj
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 w'en	amod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 w'en	amod
8	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
10	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cookin	compound
12	cookin	cookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	obj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cookin	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
15	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 head	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	compound
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 call	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 call	nsubj
21	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fine	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 call	compound:prt
23	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dogs	compound
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 call	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 em	punct
29	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sickt	compound
30	sickt	sickt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 em	compound
31	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 Brer	case
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 em	nmod
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Brer	flat
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 en	punct
36	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 en	nsubj
37	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 en	amod
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 en	nsubj
39	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 en	compound
40	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 en	compound
41	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 en	compound
42	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 push	nsubj
43	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	42 en	flat:foreign
44	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 push	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dey	punct
46	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dogs	conj
47	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Rabbit	compound
49	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 push	obj
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 close	advmod
51	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 push	xcomp
52	dat	dat	ADP	_	54 hatter	case
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 hatter	nsubj
54	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 close	obl
55	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 push	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 tree	det
57	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tree	compound
58	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 take	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	w'en		gwine					tree rules
2	fine	past	Miss Fox and mighty mad w'en	she cookin				vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cookin=Recipient
3	call up speech: assert	infinitive	gwine's ole man head and en		de dogs			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
4	do	past	head	sickt em		Brer		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent em=Eventuality
5	en		en					tree rules
6	push	present	ole en Tobe en	Brer Rabbit			close property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
7	take	infinitive	ole en Tobe en not said here	a holler tree				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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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