Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 28
But he des might ez well er rastle wid his own shadder.
Who acts: amble · What happens: de, ez, rastle, wi · To what, where: own shadder
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 des | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 des | nsubj |
| 3 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ez | advcl |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ez | aux |
| 5 | ez | ez | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ez | advmod |
| 7 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 rastle | advmod |
| 8 | rastle | rastle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ez | conj |
| 9 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rastle | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shadder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shadder | amod |
| 12 | shadder | shadder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wid | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | present | amble | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ez | might | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rastle | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wi | past | amble's own shadder | 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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