Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 33

Den Brer Fox, he sa'ntered fort', lookin' dez ez innercent ez wunner yo' mammy's mockin'- birds.

Who acts: Den, dez · What happens: sa'nter, mockin · To what, where: fort

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, dez), 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	6 sa'ntered	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sa'ntered	nsubj
6	sa'ntered	sa'nter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sa'ntered	obj
8	',	',	PUNCT	_	9 lookin	punct
9	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sa'ntered	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lookin	punct
11	dez	dez	X	Foreign=Yes	20 mockin	nsubj
12	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mockin	amod
13	innercent	innercent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mockin	amod
14	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 yo	amod
15	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yo	compound
16	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mammy	nmod:poss
17	'	's	PART	_	16 yo	case
18	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mockin	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 mammy	case
20	mockin	mockin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sa'ntered	parataxis
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 mockin	punct
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 birds	punct
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mockin	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sa'ntered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sa'nter	past	Den	fort					tree rules
2	mockin		dez						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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