Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 33
Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er greens over.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit, turnt pot er · What happens: skint up, green over · To what, where: w'at
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 (Brer Rabbit, turnt pot er), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skint | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 skint | nsubj |
| 4 | skint | skint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 skint | compound:prt |
| 6 | de | de | ADP | _ | 7 chimbly | case |
| 7 | chimbly | chimbly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skint | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 w'at | punct |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dat | case |
| 11 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chimbly | appos |
| 12 | turnt | turnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 er | amod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 turnt | flat:foreign |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 er | compound |
| 15 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 greens | nsubj |
| 16 | greens | green | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 greens | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skint up | past | Brer Rabbit | de chimbly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | green over | present | turnt pot er | dat's w'at not said here | over property | tree rules |
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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