Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 58
Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en by de time Miss Cow come long he had his head stickin' out, en his eyes look big ez Miss Sally's chany sassers.
Who acts: Brer, den, eyes · What happens: kep, dart, come, have out, look · To what, where: gainin en bimeby, head stickin, en
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 (Brer, den, eyes), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kep | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | kep | kep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 dart | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bimeby | case |
| 6 | gainin | gainin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bimeby | compound |
| 7 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 6 gainin | dep |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bimeby | compound |
| 9 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dart | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dart | nsubj |
| 11 | dart | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kep | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 patch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 patch | det |
| 14 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 patch | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 brier | punct |
| 16 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dart | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 patch | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 22 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Cow | compound |
| 23 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | conj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 11 dart | conj |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 had | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 stickin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stickin | compound |
| 30 | stickin | stickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 stickin | punct |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 had | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 look | obl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 look | nsubj |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | conj |
| 38 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sassers | amod |
| 39 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sassers | amod |
| 40 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sally | compound |
| 41 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sassers | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Sally | case |
| 43 | chany | chany | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sassers | amod |
| 44 | sassers | sasser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 look | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kep | present | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dart | present | den | gainin en bimeby | in a brier patch and en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bimeby=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | present | den not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have out | past | den | den's head stickin | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stickin=Patient | |||
| 5 | look | present | den's eyes | en | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sasser=Attribute |
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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