Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 12
Den Brer Rabbit 'low he wuz on his way fer ter see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he ax Brer Tarrypin ef he won't jine in en go long, en Brer Tarrypin 'spon' he don't keer ef he do, en den dey sot out.
Who acts: wuz, Rabbit · What happens: see, ax, not jine, go, not keer out, do · To what, where: en, ef
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz, Rabbit), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wuz | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 5 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wuz | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wuz | nsubj |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wuz | nmod |
| 11 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 ter | amod |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | compound |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wuz | acl |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Meadows | compound |
| 15 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 en | compound |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wuz | conj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 en | flat:foreign |
| 18 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 en | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ax | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ax | compound |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ax | nsubj |
| 22 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gals | conj |
| 23 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ax | appos |
| 24 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | flat |
| 25 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | list |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 jine | nsubj |
| 27 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 jine | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 jine | advmod |
| 29 | jine | jine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ax | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 en | case |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 jine | parataxis |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 en | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 36 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 spon | nmod:poss |
| 37 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Brer | flat |
| 38 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 36 Brer | case |
| 39 | spon | spon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 en | nmod |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 spon | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 keer | nsubj |
| 42 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 44 keer | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 keer | advmod |
| 44 | keer | keer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 spon | acl:relcl |
| 45 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 keer | obj |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 do | nsubj |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 45 ef | acl:relcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 sot | punct |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 den | compound |
| 50 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 dey | compound |
| 51 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sot | compound |
| 52 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ef | conj |
| 53 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 keer | compound:prt |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | wuz on Rabbit's way and Meadows en and gals and en ax not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ax | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not jine | future | Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | present | en Brer's spon | en | long property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in en=Location | |||
| 5 | not keer out | infinitive · do-support | Rabbit | ef and dey sot | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | Rabbit | ef and dey sot not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=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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