Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 5
Brer Rabbit stop, he did, en rap on de roof er Brer Tarrypin house."
Who acts: Brer · What happens: stop, do · To what, where: en rap, de roof
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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rap | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rap | compound |
| 9 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 roof | compound |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rap | nmod |
| 13 | er | er | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 12 roof | appos |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 15 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Brer | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Brer | en rap | de roof | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rap=Eventuality |
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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