Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 25
He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort."
Who acts: amble · What happens: rip, ra'r, cuss, swar, snort, cavort · To what, where: en
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 (amble), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rip | nsubj |
| 2 | rip | rip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ra'r | compound |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ra'r | nsubj |
| 5 | ra'r | ra'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rip | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ra'r | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cuss | nsubj |
| 9 | cuss | cuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 en | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swar | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swar | compound |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swar | nsubj |
| 13 | swar | swar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ra'r | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 snort | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 snort | nsubj |
| 16 | snort | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rip | parataxis |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snort | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cavort | nsubj |
| 19 | cavort | cavort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 en | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 snort | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 snort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rip | present | amble | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ra'r | amble | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cuss | amble | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | swar | amble | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | snort | present | amble | en | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cavort | infinitive | amble | en not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location en=Theme |
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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