Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 57
"Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl.
Who acts: Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer, years, en · What happens: pull out, do, have, wi, lay back, wid · To what, where: horn, en tuck atter, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer), 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 | 7 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pull | nsubj |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pull | compound:prt |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pull | punct |
| 10 | er | er | PART | _ | 11 horn | mark |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pull | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 atter | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | compound |
| 17 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | compound |
| 18 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | appos |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Brer | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 did | advmod |
| 24 | de | de | ADV | _ | 25 big | advmod |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dey | amod |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dey | compound |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 did | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wid | punct |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wid | nsubj |
| 32 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Brer | flat |
| 33 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pull | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 years | nmod:poss |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 laid | nsubj |
| 36 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wid | ccomp |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 laid | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wid | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wid | nsubj |
| 40 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 wid | compound |
| 41 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wid | compound |
| 42 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obl |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 wid | punct |
| 44 | er | er | PART | _ | 45 head | mark |
| 45 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | advcl |
| 46 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 pull | compound:prt |
| 47 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obj |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pull | punct |
| 49 | er | er | PART | _ | 51 curl | mark |
| 50 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 curl | compound |
| 51 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out in a quote | infinitive | Den and Cow | horn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Cow | en tuck atter and en | down property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | big road dey | sezee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wi in a quote | past | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lay back in a quote | past | Dey's years | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wid in a quote | en | 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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