Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 6

_--Most readers of these Notes will remember the central episode of Mr. J. C. Harris' _Uncle Remus_, in which Brer Fox, annoyed at Brer Rabbit's depredations, fits up "a contrapshun, what he calls a Tar Baby."

Who acts: Most readers, Brer · What happens: remember, fit up, call · To what, where: central episode, contrapshun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most readers, Brer), 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	_	9 remember	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 remember	punct
3	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 readers	amod
4	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remember	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Notes	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 Notes	det
7	Notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 readers	nmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remember	aux
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 episode	det
11	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 episode	amod
12	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remember	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 C.	case
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 C.	nmod:desc
15	J.	J.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 C.	compound
16	C.	C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 episode	nmod
17	Harris	Harris	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 C.	flat
18	'	's	PART	_	17 Harris	case
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Remus	punct
20	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Remus	compound
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remember	obj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Remus	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fits	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fits	obl
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 fits	nsubj
27	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Brer	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 annoyed	punct
29	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Brer	list
30	at	at	ADP	_	34 depredations	case
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Rabbit	compound
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 depredations	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Rabbit	case
34	depredations	depredation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 annoyed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Brer	punct
36	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 remember	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 fits	compound:prt
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 contrapshun	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 contrapshun	det
40	contrapshun	contrapshun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fits	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 calls	punct
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 calls	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 calls	nsubj
44	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 contrapshun	acl:relcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 Baby	det
46	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Baby	compound
47	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 calls	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 remember	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	remember	future	Most readers of this Notes	the central episode of J. C. Mr.	tree rules
2	fit up	present	Brer	a contrapshun	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in which=Trajectory
3	call in a quote	present	Brer	a contrapshun	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme baby=Result

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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