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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 39

"Den Brer Rabbit say he wuz too sick, en Brer Fox say he wuzzent, en dar dey had it up and down, 'sputin' en contendin'.

Who acts: den, Brer, en dar dey · What happens: say, wuz, wuzzent, have · To what, where: Den, en, wuzzent · 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, Brer, en dar dey), 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

punctoblflatflatnsubjccompadvmodamodpunctconjnsubjflatacl:relclnsubjobjpunctcompoundcompoundnsubjparataxisobjadvmodccconjpunctpunctcompoundpunctcompoundparataxispunctpunctroot"PUNCTDenPROPNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNsayVERBhePRONwuzNOUNtooADVsickADJ,PUNCTenNOUNBrerPROPNFoxPROPNsayVERBhePRONwuzzentNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdarNOUNdeyNOUNhadVERBitPRONupADVandCCONJdownADV,PUNCT'PUNCTsputinNOUN'PUNCTenXcontendinNOUN'PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Denpunct
2DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing5 sayobl
3BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing2 Denflat
4RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing2 Denflat
5saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 wuznsubj
7wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing5 sayccomp
8tootooADV_9 sickadvmod
9sicksickADJDegree=Pos7 wuzamod
10,,PUNCT_11 enpunct
11enenNOUNNumber=Sing7 wuzconj
12BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing14 saynsubj
13FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing12 Brerflat
14saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 enacl:relcl
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 wuzzentnsubj
16wuzzentwuzzentNOUNNumber=Sing14 sayobj
17,,PUNCT_20 deypunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing20 deycompound
19dardarNOUNNumber=Sing20 deycompound
20deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing21 hadnsubj
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 wuzzentparataxis
22ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 hadobj
23upupADV_21 hadadvmod
24andandCCONJ_25 downcc
25downdownADV_23 upconj
26,,PUNCT_31 contendinpunct
27''PUNCT_28 sputinpunct
28sputinsputinNOUNNumber=Sing31 contendincompound
29''PUNCT_28 sputinpunct
30enenXForeign=Yes31 contendincompound
31contendincontendinNOUNNumber=Sing21 hadparataxis
32''PUNCT_31 contendinpunct
33..PUNCT_5 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresentDenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2wuz in a quotedentree rules
3say speech: assert in a quotepresentBreren not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic
4wuzzent in a quoteBrertree rules
5have in a quotepasten dar deywuzzentvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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