Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 18

You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny invite,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, en dar you is, en dar you'll stay twel I fixes up a bresh-pile and fires her up, kaze I'm gwineter bobby-cue you dis day, sho,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.

Who acts: You, twel, I · What happens: tuck, be, stay, fix up, fire up, dis · To what, where: jam yo'se'f, dat, en dar, bresh pile, twel, gwineter bobby cue · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, twel, I), 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	3 tuck	nsubj
2	des	des	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tuck	aux
3	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jam	compound
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yo'se'f	compound
6	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tuck	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 dat	case
8	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tuck	obl
9	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Baby	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Tar	punct
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 waitin	compound
12	widout	widout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waitin	compound
13	waitin	waitin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tuck	parataxis
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 invite	punct
15	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enny	compound
16	enny	enny	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 invite	compound
17	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waitin	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sez	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 sez	punct
20	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tuck	parataxis
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Fox	compound
22	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sez	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sezee	punct
24	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Fox	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dar	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dar	compound
27	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Fox	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sez	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sez	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dar	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dar	compound
32	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stay	obl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 stay	nsubj
34	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 stay	aux
35	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tuck	conj
36	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fixes	nsubj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 fixes	nsubj
38	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 stay	parataxis
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 fixes	compound:prt
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pile	det
41	bresh	bresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pile	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 bresh	punct
43	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fixes	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fires	cc
45	fires	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 fixes	conj
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fires	obj
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 fires	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 kaze	punct
49	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fires	obl
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 cue	nsubj
51	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 cue	cop
52	gwineter	gwineter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 cue	amod
53	bobby	bobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 cue	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 bobby	punct
55	cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 kaze	acl:relcl
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 dis	nsubj
57	dis	dis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 cue	acl:relcl
58	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 dis	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 sho	punct
60	sho	sho	NOUN	_	58 day	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sez	punct
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	63 sez	punct
63	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tuck	parataxis
64	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Fox	compound
65	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 sez	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 sezee	punct
67	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 Fox	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck		You	jam yo'se'f	dat			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yo'se'f=Theme on dat=Trajectory
2	is	present					say property	tree rules
3	stay	future	you	en dar				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fix up	present	twel	a bresh pile				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pile=Patient
5	fire up	present	twel not said here	twel			kaze obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	is a	present	I	gwineter bobby cue				tree rules
7	dis	present	you	gwineter bobby cue not said here		day		tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present		Brer Fox and sezee				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic

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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