Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 15

Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby?

Who acts: fer ter, en · What happens: ax, come, strike up · To what, where: you, quaintance wid dish

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fer ter, en), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 ax	nsubj
2	ax	ax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 ax	obj
4	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ter	amod
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ax	parataxis
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	nsubj
8	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 strike	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dish	det
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 dish	punct
12	quaintance	quaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dish	compound
13	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dish	amod
14	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obj
15	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Tar	nmod:poss
16	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dish	appos
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Baby	punct
18	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tar	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ax	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ax	present		you	tree rules
2	come	present	fer ter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike up	present	en	a quaintance wid dish	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient

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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