Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 20
Well, Brer Rabbit rid Brer Fox up, he did, en tied 'im to de rack, en den sot out in de peazzer wid de gals a smokin' er his seegyar wid mo' proudness dan w'at you mos' ever see.
Who acts: Brer, en, you · What happens: rid, fox up, do, tie, gal, mos · To what, where: im, smokin, proudness dan w'at
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 rid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rid | nsubj |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gals | advcl |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | nsubj |
| 7 | Fox | fox | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rid | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 Fox | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rid | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | nsubj |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rid | conj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 im | punct |
| 16 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rack | case |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rack | amod |
| 19 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sot | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 den | compound |
| 22 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sot | compound |
| 23 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rack | appos |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 sot | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 de | case |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 de | nsubj |
| 27 | peazzer | peazzer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 de | compound |
| 28 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 de | compound |
| 29 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sot | nmod |
| 30 | gals | gal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 smokin | det |
| 32 | smokin | smokin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gals | obj |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 smokin | punct |
| 34 | er | er | ADP | _ | 38 mo | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mo | nmod:poss |
| 36 | seegyar | seegyar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mo | amod |
| 37 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mo | amod |
| 38 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gals | obl |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 w'at | punct |
| 40 | proudness | proudness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 w'at | compound |
| 41 | dan | dan | X | _ | 42 w'at | compound |
| 42 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 mo | appos |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 mos | nsubj |
| 44 | mos | mos | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 see | punct |
| 46 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 see | advmod |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 mos | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 gals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rid | past | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fox up | infinitive | Brer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Brer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tie | past | en | im | to de rack | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent im=Patient to rack=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | gal | present | a smokin | er en's seegyar wid mo | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mos | present | you | proudness dan w'at not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | infinitive | you not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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