Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 25

Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his years en begin fer ter sing:

Who acts: Den, de, en, paws, years en · What happens: shoot, do, put, behime, begin · To what, where: en sot, fer ter sing

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 (Den, de, en, paws), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shot	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	ccomp
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 sot	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sot	compound
9	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	down	down	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 paws	nmod:poss
15	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 behime	nsubj
16	behime	behime	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 put	ccomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 en	nmod:poss
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 en	compound
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begin	nsubj
20	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 behime	ccomp
21	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 sing	amod
22	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sing	compound
23	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begin	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	Den			tree rules
2	do	present	de	en sot	down property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	en			tree rules
4	behime	present	Den's paws			tree rules
5	begin	present	Den's years en	fer ter sing		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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