Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 12

He moughter stayed sorter close twel de pitch rub off'n his ha'r, but tweren't menny days 'fo' he wuz lopin' up en down de neighborhood same ez ever, en I dunno ef he weren't mo' sassier dan befo'.

Who acts: dat, I · What happens: stay, dunno, not be · To what, where: close twel, en, mo

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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 (dat, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stayed	nsubj
2	moughter	moughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorter	sorter	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 twel	amod
6	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 rub	compound
8	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rub	compound
9	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twel	appos
10	off'n	off'n	CCONJ	_	12 ha'r	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ha'r	nmod:poss
12	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rub	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lopin	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 lopin	cc
15	twere	twere	ADV	_	17 menny	advmod
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 menny	advmod
17	menny	menny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 days	amod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fo	obl:unmarked
19	'	's	PART	_	18 days	case
20	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	24 lopin	case
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 fo	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lopin	nsubj
23	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lopin	compound
24	lopin	lopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	parataxis
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 lopin	punct
26	up	up	ADP	_	27 en	case
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
28	down	down	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
29	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 neighborhood	nmod:poss
30	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obj
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ez	amod
32	ez	ez	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl:unmarked
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stayed	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dunno	punct
35	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dunno	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 dunno	nsubj
37	dunno	dunno	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	parataxis
38	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dunno	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 mo	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 mo	cop
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 mo	advmod
42	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dunno	conj
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 mo	punct
44	sassier	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 befo	amod
45	dan	dan	X	_	46 befo	compound
46	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mo	appos
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 befo	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	dat	close twel	ever	up en; same ez obl:unmarked; down, sorter property	tree rules
2	dunno	present	I	en			tree rules
3	not is a	past	dat	mo			tree rules

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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