Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 26
"En Mr. Buzzard, he come steppin' up, he did, same ez ef he wer treddin' on kurkle-burs, en he stick his head in de hole; en no sooner did he done dat dan Brer Fox grab 'im.
Who acts: Mr., same ez ef, EF, dan · What happens: come up, do, treddin, stick, grab · To what, where: steppin, En Buzzard, kurkle burs, head, de hole, im
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., same ez ef, EF, dan), 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 | _ | 4 Buzzard | punct |
| 2 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buzzard | compound |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Buzzard | conj |
| 8 | steppin | steppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 steppin | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 come | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ef | punct |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ef | amod |
| 16 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ef | amod |
| 17 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 treddin | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 treddin | nsubj |
| 19 | wer | w | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 treddin | amod |
| 20 | treddin | treddin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Buzzard | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 treddin | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 burs | case |
| 23 | kurkle | kurkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burs | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 kurkle | punct |
| 25 | burs | bur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 treddin | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 en | punct |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burs | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stick | nsubj |
| 29 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 en | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 head | nmod:poss |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stick | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hole | case |
| 33 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hole | amod |
| 34 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stick | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 en | punct |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 treddin | conj |
| 37 | no | no | ADV | _ | 38 sooner | advmod |
| 38 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 done | advmod |
| 39 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 done | aux |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 done | nsubj |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 en | acl:relcl |
| 42 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 grab | amod |
| 43 | dan | dan | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 grab | nsubj |
| 44 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 grab | compound |
| 45 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 grab | compound |
| 46 | grab | grab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 done | obj |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 grab | punct |
| 48 | im | im | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 done | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Buzzard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up in a quote | present | Mr. | steppin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steppin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Mr. | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | treddin in a quote | same ez ef | En Buzzard Mr. not said here | kurkle burs and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stick in a quote | infinitive | Mr. | Mr.'s head | de hole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hole=Destination | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | past · do-support | EF | im | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | grab in a quote | dan | 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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