Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 20
"C'ose Miss Cow don't wanter diskommerdate Brer Rabbit, en she march up ter de 'simmon tree, she did, en hit it a rap wid 'er horns--blam!
Who acts: C'ose, en, er horns · What happens: not diskommerdate, march up, do, hit, blam · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, ter de, wanter
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (C'ose, en, er horns), 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 C'ose | punct |
| 2 | C'ose | C'ose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 diskommerdate | nsubj |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 C'ose | flat |
| 4 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 C'ose | appos |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 diskommerdate | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 diskommerdate | advmod |
| 7 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 diskommerdate | nsubj |
| 8 | diskommerdate | diskommerdate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | compound |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 diskommerdate | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 march | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 march | nsubj |
| 14 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 diskommerdate | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 march | compound:prt |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 de | compound |
| 17 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 march | obl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 tree | punct |
| 19 | simmon | simmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 de | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 diskommerdate | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hit | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hit | nsubj |
| 26 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 diskommerdate | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hit | obj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 wid | det |
| 29 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wid | compound |
| 30 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hit | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 horns | punct |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 horns | compound |
| 33 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wid | appos |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 blam | punct |
| 35 | blam | blam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 horns | acl:relcl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 diskommerdate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not diskommerdate in a quote | present · do-support | C'ose | Brer Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | march up in a quote | infinitive | en | ter de and simmon tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | past | en | wanter | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient wid=Result | ||||
| 5 | blam in a quote | present | er horns not said here | 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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