Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 6

Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: come, spy, fotch up, stonish · To what, where: prancin, long twel, en den, behime legs

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 (Brer), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	prancin	prancin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 prancin	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 prancin	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 twel	amod
8	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spy	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spy	nsubj
10	spy	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 spy	obj
12	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 de	flat
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Baby	punct
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Tar	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 den	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 den	compound
17	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Tar	appos
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fotch	nsubj
19	fotch	fotch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	17 den	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 fotch	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 legs	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 legs	nmod:poss
23	behime	behime	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 legs	compound
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fotch	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 wuz	case
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wuz	nsubj
27	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stonished	obl
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 wuz	punct
29	stonished	stonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 legs	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Brer	prancin			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prancin=Theme
2	spy	present	Brer	long twel			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus
3	fotch up	present	Brer	en den not said here	Brer's behime legs		tree rules
4	stonish	participle		Brer's behime legs not said here		like wuz	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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