Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 16

De ve'y fus pas he make Brer Possum fetch a grin fum year ter year, en keel over like he wuz dead.

Who acts: De, Brer · What happens: make, fetch · To what, where: grin fum

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	6 make	nsubj
2	ve'y	ve'y	X	Foreign=Yes	1 De	flat
3	fus	fus	X	Foreign=Yes	1 De	flat:foreign
4	pas	pas	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	nsubj
8	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fum	det
11	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fum	compound
12	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ter	compound
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 year	compound
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fum	nmod:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keel	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keel	compound
18	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fum	conj
19	over	over	ADV	_	18 keel	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 wuz	case
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wuz	nsubj
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keel	nmod
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wuz	amod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	De						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fetch	present	Brer	a grin fum ter year and en keel like wuz					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fum=Theme

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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