Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 24

Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en dar, stickin' fum behime de cornder, wuz de tip-een' er Brer Fox tail.

Who acts: Brer Rabbit · What happens: go · To what, where: de

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 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Atter	Atter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Atter	case
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 Rabbit	mark
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 de	case
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 goes	obl
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ',	aux
10	',	',	PART	_	6 goes	obl
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goes	parataxis
12	like	like	INTJ	_	11 easy	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peep	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peep	compound
15	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 easy	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 peep	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dar	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dar	compound
19	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peep	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stickin	punct
21	stickin	stickin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peep	conj
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 behime	punct
23	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behime	compound
24	behime	behime	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stickin	appos
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 cornder	compound
26	cornder	cornder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behime	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wuz	punct
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behime	conj
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 wuz	flat:foreign
30	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 een	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 een	punct
32	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wuz	appos
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 een	punct
34	er	er	ADP	_	37 tail	case
35	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tail	compound
36	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Brer	flat
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behime	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Atter's Brer Rabbit			de			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to de=Initial_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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