Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 8
Brer Rabbit sorter dance up long side er de fence, he did, en holler out:
Who acts: Brer Rabbit sorter, sorter · What happens: dance up, do out · To what, where: long side, en holler
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 Rabbit sorter, sorter), 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 sorter | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorter | compound |
| 3 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 dance | compound:prt |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | obl |
| 8 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 de | advmod |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fence | amod |
| 10 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dance | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dance | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holler | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holler | compound |
| 16 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 did | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance up | present | Brer Rabbit sorter | long side | de fence obl | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do out | past | sorter | en holler | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Eventuality |
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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