Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 45

Miss Fox, she tell Tobe fer ter stay dar en mine Brer Rabbit, w'ile she goes en git de ax, en w'en she gone, Brer Rabbit, he tole Tobe ef he go ter de branch en git 'im a drink er water dat he'll gin 'im a dollar.

Who acts: Miss Fox, fer ter, head, git, Fox · What happens: tell, stay, go, tole, gin · To what, where: Tobe, dar en, w'ile, de en git, dollar · 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 (Miss Fox, fer ter, head, git), 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	5 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
7	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ter	amod
8	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stay	nsubj
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
10	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 en	amod
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obj
12	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 en	nmod
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mine	list
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Brer	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 w'ile	punct
16	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Brer	appos
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 goes	nsubj
18	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 w'ile	acl:relcl
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 git	compound
20	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	nsubj
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 ax	compound
22	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 w'en	punct
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 w'en	compound
25	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	nsubj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gone	nsubj
27	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 goes	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Rabbit	punct
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Rabbit	compound
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tole	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tole	nsubj
33	tole	tole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	conj
34	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 tole	appos
35	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tole	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
37	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	33 tole	acl:relcl
38	ter	ter	ADV	_	39 de	advmod
39	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 git	amod
40	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 en	compound
41	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 git	compound
42	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 drink	punct
44	im	im	ADP	_	46 drink	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 drink	det
46	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 git	nmod
47	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 dat	amod
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dat	compound
49	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 drink	conj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 gin	nsubj
51	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 gin	aux
52	gin	gin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 dat	acl:relcl
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	56 dollar	punct
54	im	im	ADP	_	56 dollar	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 dollar	det
56	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gin	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Miss Fox		Tobe	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tobe=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay	present	fer ter	dar en mine		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme en=Location
3	go	present	head	w'ile not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location w'ile=Theme
4	tole		git			tree rules
5	go	present	git	de en git im a drink and er water dat		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tole=Theme
6	gin	future	Fox	a dollar		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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