Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 18

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef' un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

Who acts: You, hisse'f, Dog, un, skaddlin · What happens: get, make, skase, tuck, go, shoot · To what, where: chance, hisse'f, outen

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 (You, hisse'f, Dog, un), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 You	xcomp
3	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 w'en	compound
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 w'en	compound
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	appos
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dog	nmod:desc
7	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 w'en	appos
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chance	det
10	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chance	acl
13	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
14	skase	skase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tuck	nsubj
16	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 skase	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tuck	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 w'at	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 w'at	compound
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tuck	obl
21	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 w'at	amod
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lef	compound
23	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 un	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 lef	case
25	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 der	conj
28	skaddlin	skaddlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shot	nsubj
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 woods	punct
30	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 de	compound
31	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woods	compound
32	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 skaddlin	conj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 wuz	case
34	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wuz	compound
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woods	nmod
36	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	ccomp
37	outen	outen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shot	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 muskit	det
39	muskit	muskit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shot	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	You	a chance		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive	You not said here	hisse'f		tree rules
3	skase	infinitive	hisse'f not said here			tree rules
4	tuck	infinitive	Dog	hisse'f	en w'at obl	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	go	past	wuz lef's un			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	shoot	past	skaddlin and de woods like hit wuz	outen		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent outen=Destination muskit=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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