Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 5

I tole you Brer Rabbit wuz a monstus soon creetur; leas'ways dat's w'at I laid out fer ter tell you.

Who acts: I, Brer, fer ter · What happens: tole, wuz, lay out, tell · To what, where: you, monstus, dat w'at · 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 (I, Brer, fer ter), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tole	nsubj
2	tole	tole	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tole	obj
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	nsubj
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tole	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 monstus	det
8	monstus	monstus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	obj
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 creetur	advmod
10	creetur	creetur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 monstus	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 w'at	punct
12	leas'ways	leas'way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dat	compound
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	compound
14	's	's	PART	_	13 dat	case
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 w'at	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 laid	compound:prt
19	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 ter	amod
20	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tole	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tole	present	I	you		tree rules
2	wuz	present	Brer	a monstus and creetur		tree rules
3	lay out	past	I	dat w'at not said here		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Result
4	tell speech: assert	present	fer ter	dat w'at	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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