Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 63
"En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, en Brer Rabbit, he des lay down dar in de brier-patch en roll en laugh twel his sides hurtid 'im.
Who acts: de dogs, En wid dat · What happens: wuz, de, lay down, laugh · To what, where: atter er, dar · 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 (de dogs, En wid dat), 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 dat | punct |
| 2 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 3 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 des | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tuck | punct |
| 6 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tuck | compound |
| 7 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tuck | compound |
| 8 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | appos |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 tuck | advmod |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tuck | nmod |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 wuz | mark |
| 13 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dogs | compound |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wuz | nsubj |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 road | acl |
| 16 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | compound |
| 17 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | conj |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 en | appos |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dat | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 des | nsubj |
| 24 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 des | ccomp |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 lay | compound:prt |
| 27 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 laugh | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 en | case |
| 29 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 en | amod |
| 30 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 patch | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 brier | punct |
| 32 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 en | compound |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roll | compound |
| 34 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 en | compound |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dar | nmod |
| 36 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lay | conj |
| 37 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hurtid | compound |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 sides | nmod:poss |
| 39 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hurtid | compound |
| 40 | hurtid | hurtid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 laugh | obj |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 hurtid | punct |
| 42 | im | im | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 laugh | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 des | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | de dogs | atter er and en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | de in a quote | present | En wid dat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay down in a quote | infinitive | En wid dat not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | infinitive | En wid dat not said here | dar in de roll en | im obl:unmarked | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurtid=Theme |
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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