Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 62

Some tells one tale en some tells nudder; some say dat fum dat time forrerd de Rabbits en de Foxes make fren's en stay so; some say dey kep on quollin'.

Who acts: Some, de Foxes, dey · What happens: tell, say, make, stay, kep · To what, where: one tale en, nudder, en, quollin · 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, de Foxes, dey), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 en	nummod
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 en	compound
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
8	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fum	compound
13	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forrerd	compound
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forrerd	compound
16	forrerd	forrerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 en	compound
17	de	de	ADP	_	18 Rabbits	case
18	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forrerd	nmod
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 de	compound
20	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Foxes	compound
21	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 make	nsubj
22	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
23	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 en	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 fren	case
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
26	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 make	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 stay	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 say	nsubj
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
31	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kep	nsubj
32	kep	kep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	ccomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 quollin	case
34	quollin	quollin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kep	obl
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 quollin	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Some	one tale en		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent en=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	present	some	nudder		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nudder=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	present	de Foxes	fren's en		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product
5	stay	present	de Foxes not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	kep	present	dey		quollin	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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