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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 21

En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox.

Who acts: Brer, en den · What happens: tuck, make, set down, rabbit · To what, where: de, sorter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en den), 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

compoundnmod:descnsubjflatnsubjoblobjcaseamodcompoundoblparataxisadvmodxcompcompound:prtpunctcompoundnsubjnmodccconjparataxisobjadvmodoblpunctconjpunctcasecompoundnmodpunctrootEnPROPNdenNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNhePRONtuckVERBdeXchillunsNOUNbyADPderADJyearsNOUNenNOUNmakeVERBumADVsetVERBdownADP,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUNhimPRONandCCONJMissPROPNRabbitVERBsorterNOUNdallyADVrounNOUN'PUNCTwaitinNOUN'PUNCTforADPBrerPROPNFoxPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EnEnPROPNNumber=Sing2 dencompound
2dendenNOUNNumber=Sing3 Brernmod:desc
3BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing6 tucknsubj
4RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing3 Brerflat
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 tucknsubj
6tucktuckVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
7dedeXForeign=Yes6 tuckobl
8chillunschillunNOUNNumber=Plur6 tuckobj
9bybyADP_12 encase
10derdADJDegree=Cmp11 yearsamod
11yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur12 encompound
12enenNOUNNumber=Sing13 makeobl
13makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 tuckparataxis
14umumADV_13 makeadvmod
15setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf13 makexcomp
16downdownADP_15 setcompound:prt
17,,PUNCT_19 denpunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing19 dencompound
19dendenNOUNNumber=Sing23 Rabbitnsubj
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 dennmod
21andandCCONJ_22 Misscc
22MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing20 himconj
23RabbitrabbitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 tuckparataxis
24sortersorterNOUNNumber=Sing23 Rabbitobj
25dallydallyADV_26 rounadvmod
26rounrounNOUNNumber=Sing23 Rabbitobl
27''PUNCT_28 waitinpunct
28waitinwaitinNOUNNumber=Sing26 rounconj
29''PUNCT_28 waitinpunct
30forforADP_32 Foxcase
31BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing32 Foxcompound
32FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing28 waitinnmod
33..PUNCT_6 tuckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tuckinfinitiveBrer En dendevn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chillun=Theme
2makepresentby years entree rules
3set downinfinitivevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4rabbitpresenten den Brersorterroun and waitin for Brer Fox oblvn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Location

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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