Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 65

"All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer' puttin' on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan' still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun'.

Who acts: you, dey, en · What happens: bless off, get, make, b'leeve, get over · To what, where: grashus, spurrers, motion fer, groun

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 (you, dey, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bless	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
3	de	de	DET	PronType=Tot	2 All	conj
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bless	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grashus	grashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bless	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honey	punct
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grashus	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bless	punct
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bless	parataxis
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brer	flat
13	wer	wer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Brer	list
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 puttin	punct
15	puttin	puttin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wer	appos
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 puttin	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 spurrers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 spurrers	nmod:poss
19	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bless	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spurrers	conj
22	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 en	flat
23	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spurrers	acl
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 got	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Meadows	case
27	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Meadows	compound
28	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 close	obl
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Meadows	case
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 whar	punct
31	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spurrers	conj
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 whar	appos
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Brer	flat
34	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Brer	list
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 git	case
36	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bless	obl
37	off	off	ADP	_	6 bless	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	nsubj
40	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 en	appos
41	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Brer	flat
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bless	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fer	det
44	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fer	compound
45	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
46	ter	ter	ADP	_	47 stan	case
47	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 fer	nmod
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 stan	punct
49	still	still	ADV	_	42 made	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 spurrers	punct
51	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 de	compound
52	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 slap	compound
53	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 de	compound
54	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 spurrers	compound
55	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obl
56	into	into	ADP	_	59 flanks	case
57	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 flanks	compound
58	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 flanks	compound
59	flanks	flank	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 spurrers	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 en	punct
61	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 flanks	conj
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 b'leeve	nsubj
63	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	64 b'leeve	amod
64	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 en	conj
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 got	nsubj
66	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 b'leeve	acl:relcl
67	over	over	ADV	_	68 groun	advmod
68	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 got	obj
69	'	'	PUNCT	_	68 groun	punct
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	grashus and honey	Brer's spurrers and en and whar	time	to git	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme
2	get in a quote	past	dey	Brer's spurrers and en and whar not said here			close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spurrer=Stimulus
3	make in a quote	past	en	a motion fer		still	ter stan; de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks and en and better b'leeve obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fer=Product
4	b'leeve in a quote		you					tree rules
5	get over in a quote	past	dey	groun				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groun=Stimulus

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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