Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 55

Den Brer Fox say he ride Brer Rabbit mos' up ter Miss Meadows's, en den he could git down en walk de balance er de way.

Who acts: Den, en den · What happens: say, ride up, git down · To what, where: Brer mos, en walk · 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, en den), 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 say	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ride	nsubj
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mos	compound
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	mos	mo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ride	obj
10	'	's	PART	_	9 mos	case
11	up	up	ADP	_	6 ride	compound:prt
12	ter	ter	ADP	_	14 Meadows	case
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Meadows	compound
14	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Meadows	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 git	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 den	compound
18	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 git	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 git	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 git	aux
21	git	git	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 git	compound:prt
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walk	compound
24	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 git	obj
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 walk	flat:foreign
26	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 er	compound
27	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walk	conj
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 way	compound
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walk	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Den			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ride up	infinitive	den	Brer mos	ter Miss Meadows	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Theme
3	git down	could	en den	en walk and balance er and de way		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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