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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 61

Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- weed, en dat Brer Rabbit married ole Miss Fox, en some say not.

Who acts: Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit · What happens: say, die, fum, marry, not say · To what, where: dat, eatin, ole Miss Fox, en · 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 (Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit), 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

nsubjobjcompoundnmod:posscaseamodpunctnsubjparataxisxcompobjpunctdetcompoundpunctobjpunctconjmarkcompoundnsubjaclamodcompoundobjpunctconjnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctrootSomeDETsayVERBdatNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN'sPARToleADJ'PUNCTomanNOUNdiedVERBfumVERBeatinNOUN'PUNCTsomeDETpizenNOUN-PUNCTweedNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdatSCONJBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNmarriedVERBoleADJMissPROPNFoxNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNsomeDETsayVERBnotPART.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SomesomeDETPronType=Ind2 saynsubj
2saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3datdatNOUNNumber=Sing2 sayobj
4BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing5 Rabbitcompound
5RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing9 omannmod:poss
6's'sPART_5 Rabbitcase
7oleoleADJDegree=Pos9 omanamod
8''PUNCT_7 olepunct
9omanomanNOUNNumber=Sing10 diednsubj
10dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sayparataxis
11fumfumVERBVerbForm=Inf10 diedxcomp
12eatineatinNOUNNumber=Sing11 fumobj
13''PUNCT_12 eatinpunct
14somesomeDETPronType=Ind17 weeddet
15pizenpizenNOUNNumber=Sing17 weedcompound
16--PUNCT_15 pizenpunct
17weedweedNOUNNumber=Sing11 fumobj
18,,PUNCT_19 enpunct
19enenNOUNNumber=Sing17 weedconj
20datdatSCONJ_23 marriedmark
21BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing22 Rabbitcompound
22RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing23 marriednsubj
23marriedmarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 enacl
24oleoleADJDegree=Pos26 Foxamod
25MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing26 Foxcompound
26FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing23 marriedobj
27,,PUNCT_28 enpunct
28enenNOUNNumber=Sing17 weedconj
29somesomeDETPronType=Ind30 saynsubj
30saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 enacl:relcl
31notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 sayadvmod
32..PUNCT_2 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentSomedatvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic
2diepastBrer Rabbit's ole omanvn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3fuminfinitiveBrer Rabbit's ole oman not said hereeatintree rules
4marrypastBrer Rabbitole Miss Foxvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient
5not say speech: assertpresentsomeen not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic

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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