Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 28
"'Good evenin', fokes, I wish you mighty well,' sezee, en wid dat he make a dash for Brer Rabbit, but Miss Meadows en de gals dey holler en squall, dey did, en Brer Tarrypin he got ter scramblin' roun' up dar on de shelf, en off he come, en blip he tuck Brer Fox on de back er de head.
Who acts: evenin fokes, dat, gals, en · What happens: wish, make, do, get, come, tuck · To what, where: sezee, you, dash, Meadows en, ter scramblin, en
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 (evenin fokes, dat, gals, en), 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 | _ | 6 fokes | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 evenin | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evenin | amod |
| 4 | evenin | evenin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fokes | compound |
| 5 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 4 evenin | dep |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fokes | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | iobj |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 wish | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 mighty | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 15 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dat | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wid | compound |
| 18 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dat | compound |
| 19 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sezee | appos |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 19 dat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dash | det |
| 23 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Rabbit | case |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rabbit | compound |
| 26 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dash | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 en | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 en | cc |
| 29 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Meadows | compound |
| 30 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 en | compound |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | conj |
| 32 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 en | flat:foreign |
| 33 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 did | nsubj |
| 34 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 squall | compound |
| 35 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 en | compound |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 squall | compound |
| 37 | squall | squall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gals | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dey | punct |
| 39 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 squall | conj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 en | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 en | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 got | nsubj |
| 43 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 en | appos |
| 44 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Brer | flat |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 got | nsubj |
| 46 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 en | acl:relcl |
| 47 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 scramblin | amod |
| 48 | scramblin | scramblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 got | obj |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 roun | punct |
| 50 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 scramblin | conj |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 roun | punct |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 roun | compound |
| 53 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 roun | conj |
| 54 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 shelf | case |
| 55 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 56 shelf | compound |
| 56 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 dar | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 en | punct |
| 58 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 scramblin | conj |
| 59 | off | off | ADP | _ | 61 come | mark |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 come | nsubj |
| 61 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 en | acl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 blip | punct |
| 63 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 blip | compound |
| 64 | blip | blip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 scramblin | conj |
| 65 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 tuck | nsubj |
| 66 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 blip | parataxis |
| 67 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 Fox | compound |
| 68 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 tuck | obj |
| 69 | on | on | ADP | _ | 70 de | case |
| 70 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 tuck | obl |
| 71 | back | back | ADV | _ | 72 er | advmod |
| 72 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 74 head | advmod |
| 73 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 74 head | compound |
| 74 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 tuck | obl |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | evenin fokes | sezee | you | mighty property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | dat | a dash | for Brer Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dash=Product for rabbit=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | gals dey en squall and dey | Meadows en not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | en | ter scramblin and roun and dar on de shelf and en and en blip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scramblin=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | dat | en not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tuck in a quote | infinitive | dat | Brer Fox | de | de head obl | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme on de=Trajectory |
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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