Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 22

Den Brer Fox grit his tushes sho' nuff, he did, en he look mighty dumpy, but w'en he riz fer ter go he up en say, sezee:

Who acts: Den, w'en riz, en · What happens: grit, tush, do, look, riz, go up · To what, where: sho, en, den, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Den, w'en riz, 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grit	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	grit	grit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tushes	nmod:poss
6	tushes	tush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grit	ccomp
7	sho	sho	NOUN	_	6 tushes	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 nuff	punct
9	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sho	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grit	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 en	parataxis
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dumpy	amod
18	dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 look	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
21	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 riz	compound
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 riz	nsubj
23	riz	riz	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	nsubj
24	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 ter	amod
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 riz	conj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grit	parataxis
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 go	compound:prt
29	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	nsubj
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 go	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sezee	punct
32	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 grit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grit	present	Den			tree rules
2	tush	present	Den not said here	sho and nuff		tree rules
3	do	past	den	en		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality
4	look	infinitive	den		dumpy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	riz		den			tree rules
6	go up	infinitive	w'en riz and fer ter	den		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent
7	say speech: assert	present	en	sezee		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=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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