Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 55
"Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer' drivin' sumpin' out, en Mr. Buzzard he rush 'roun' fer ter ketch de squir'l, en Brer Rabbit, he dash out, he did, en he des fly fer home."
Who acts: Den, Buzzard, wer · What happens: kick up, rush, dash out, do, fly · To what, where: racket, roun, fer
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 (Den, Buzzard, wer), 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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kick | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 kick | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 racket | det |
| 8 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kick | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fly | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 wer | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wer | nsubj |
| 12 | wer | wer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 fly | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sumpin | punct |
| 14 | drivin | drivin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sumpin | compound |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sumpin | punct |
| 16 | sumpin | sumpin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wer | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sumpin | punct |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sumpin | compound |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sumpin | conj |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 rush | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rush | nsubj |
| 24 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 en | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 roun | punct |
| 26 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rush | obj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 roun | punct |
| 28 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 ketch | amod |
| 29 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ketch | compound |
| 30 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roun | conj |
| 31 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 squir'l | compound |
| 32 | squir'l | squir'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ketch | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ketch | conj |
| 35 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 en | appos |
| 36 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Brer | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dash | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dash | nsubj |
| 39 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rush | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 dash | compound:prt |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 did | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 did | nsubj |
| 43 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rush | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 en | punct |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sumpin | conj |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 fly | nsubj |
| 47 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 he | det |
| 48 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kick | conj |
| 49 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 fly | obj |
| 50 | home | home | ADV | _ | 48 fly | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kick | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick up in a quote | infinitive | Den | a racket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent racket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rush in a quote | infinitive | Buzzard Mr. | roun and fer ter ketch and de squir'l and en | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roun=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | dash out in a quote | infinitive | Buzzard | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | Buzzard | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | infinitive | wer | fer | home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fer=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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