Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 4
Gwine canterin' long de road, who should Brer Rabbit run up wid but ole Brer Tarrypin--de same ole one-en-sixpunce.
Who acts: Gwine canterin, de · What happens: run up, sixpunce
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 (Gwine canterin, de), 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 | Gwine | Gwine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 canterin | compound |
| 2 | canterin | canterin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 road | punct |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 road | compound |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 canterin | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rabbit | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 Rabbit | aux |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 road | conj |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 run | compound:prt |
| 14 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 run | xcomp |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Brer | cc |
| 16 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Brer | amod |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wid | conj |
| 18 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 sixpunce | punct |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 sixpunce | nsubj |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sixpunce | amod |
| 22 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sixpunce | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sixpunce | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sixpunce | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 sixpunce | punct |
| 27 | sixpunce | sixpunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | present | Gwine canterin | wid property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sixpunce | de | 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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