Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 35
"Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar Brer Tarrypin lit, but he don't see no sine er Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: look, feel, de back, light, not see · To what, where: en, sine
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), 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 | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 6 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Brer | parataxis |
| 8 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 roun | case |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 de | cc |
| 13 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feel | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 de | advmod |
| 15 | er | er | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 de | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lit | punct |
| 19 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 lit | nsubj |
| 21 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 see | advmod |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 sine | det |
| 30 | sine | sine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 see | advmod |
| 32 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Rabbit | compound |
| 33 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 er | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Brer | roun's en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | infinitive | Brer not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | de back in a quote | infinitive | Brer not said here | er Brer's head | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light in a quote | past | Brer whar | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Brer | no sine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sine=Stimulus |
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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