Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 41
He 'sembled his fambly, he did, en he swaje ole Miss Cow's bag.
Who acts: dat · What happens: semble, swaje · To what, where: fambly, bag
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 (dat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:603): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 3 sembled | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sembled | punct |
| 3 | sembled | semble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fambly | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fambly | fambly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sembled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sembled | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swaje | punct |
| 10 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swaje | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swaje | nsubj |
| 12 | swaje | swaje | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sembled | conj |
| 13 | ole | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cow | amod |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cow | compound |
| 15 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Cow | case |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swaje | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | semble | past | dat | dat's fambly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swaje | past | dat | ole Miss Cow's bag | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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