Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 3
Brer Rabbit tuck'n 'low dat he wuz gwineter drap in en see Miss Meadows en de gals, en he got out his piece er lookin'-glass en primp up, he did, en sot out.
Who acts: wuz gwineter, dat, glass en, en · What happens: see, get out, primp up, do out · To what, where: Miss Meadows en, en, en sot
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 gwineter, dat, glass en, 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tuck'n | compound |
| 3 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dat | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tuck'n | punct |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dat | amod |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gwineter | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gwineter | nsubj |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gwineter | compound |
| 9 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | drap | drap | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 en | case |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gwineter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 en | compound |
| 15 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 en | compound |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 en | flat:foreign |
| 18 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 en | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gals | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 en | acl:relcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 got | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 piece | nmod:poss |
| 25 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 er | nsubj |
| 26 | er | er | X | _ | 32 primp | punct |
| 27 | lookin | lookin | X | _ | 26 er | goeswith |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 lookin | punct |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 lookin | punct |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 en | compound |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 primp | nsubj |
| 32 | primp | primp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 got | parataxis |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 primp | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 did | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gwineter | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sot | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sot | compound |
| 39 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 did | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 did | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gwineter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | wuz gwineter not said here | Miss Meadows en and gals and en | en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get out | past | dat | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | primp up | infinitive | glass en | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do out | past | en | en sot | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sot=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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