Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 49
"'Look up en see,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en w'en Brer Fox look up, Brer Rabbit spit his eyes full er terbacker joose, he did, en Brer Fox, he make a break fer de branch, en Brer Rabbit he come down en tole de ladies good-by.
Who acts: en, Brer Rabbit, Fox · What happens: look up, see, say, spit, do, make · To what, where: en, Brer, eyes, en Brer Fox, break fer, tole de ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (en, Brer Rabbit, Fox), 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 | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 3 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 Look | compound:prt |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Look | obj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 en | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 9 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sez | obj |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 w'en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 w'en | compound |
| 16 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sezee | appos |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 w'en | conj |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 look | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Rabbit | punct |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Rabbit | compound |
| 23 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spit | nsubj |
| 24 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spit | obj |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spit | advcl |
| 28 | er | er | X | _ | 30 joose | compound |
| 29 | terbacker | terbacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 joose | compound |
| 30 | joose | joose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Fox | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Fox | compound |
| 36 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Fox | compound |
| 37 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 did | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | nsubj |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 fer | det |
| 42 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fer | compound |
| 43 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 44 | de | de | ADP | _ | 45 branch | case |
| 45 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fer | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 en | punct |
| 47 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fer | conj |
| 48 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Rabbit | compound |
| 49 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 en | conj |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 come | nsubj |
| 51 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | parataxis |
| 52 | down | down | ADV | _ | 51 come | advmod |
| 53 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 tole | compound |
| 54 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ladies | compound |
| 55 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ladies | compound |
| 56 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 come | obl |
| 57 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 ladies | amod |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 by | punct |
| 59 | by | by | ADP | _ | 57 good | fixed |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up in a quote | infinitive | en | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | en not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look up in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | spit in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit | Fox's eyes | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | Fox | en Brer Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | present | Fox | a break fer and en and Brer Rabbit | de branch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Product | |||
| 8 | come down in a quote | present | Fox | tole de ladies | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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