Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 34
Brer Tarrypin, he crope under de bed, he did, en got behime de cloze-chist, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey run out in de yard.
Who acts: Brer, en · What happens: crope, do, get, run out · To what, where: de bed, de cloze chist, en gals
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, 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 | 11 did | nsubj |
| 2 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crope | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crope | nsubj |
| 5 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | compound |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crope | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 15 | behime | behime | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chist | amod |
| 17 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chist | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cloze | punct |
| 19 | chist | chist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chist | conj |
| 22 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Meadows | compound |
| 23 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 en | compound |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | compound |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 en | flat:foreign |
| 26 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 en | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dey | punct |
| 28 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | conj |
| 29 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gals | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 run | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 yard | case |
| 32 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 yard | amod |
| 33 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 run | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crope | Brer | de bed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Brer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | en | de cloze chist and en en gals and dey | behime property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chist=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | run out | participle | en gals and dey not said here | in de yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=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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