Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 12
But Brer Wolf, he got mighty long head, en he sorter broach 'bout Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns on, kaze de way dat Brer Rabbit 'ceive Brer Fox done got ter be de talk er de naberhood.
Who acts: Wolf, Brer Rabbit, way · What happens: get, broach on, ceive, be · To what, where: long head, way, talk
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Brer Rabbit, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:675): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wolf | compound |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | dislocated |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wolf | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 head | amod |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broach | punct |
| 11 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 broach | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 broach | nsubj |
| 13 | sorter | sorter | ADV | _ | 14 broach | advmod |
| 14 | broach | broach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 bout | punct |
| 16 | bout | about | ADP | _ | 20 kyar'ns | case |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 kyar'ns | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Rabbit | case |
| 20 | kyar'ns | kyar'n | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 broach | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 broach | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kaze | punct |
| 23 | kaze | kaze | SCONJ | _ | 34 got | mark |
| 24 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | nsubj |
| 26 | dat | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ceive | obl |
| 27 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rabbit | compound |
| 28 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ceive | nsubj |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 ceive | punct |
| 30 | ceive | ceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 way | acl:relcl |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Fox | compound |
| 32 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ceive | obj |
| 33 | done | do | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 got | aux |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broach | advcl |
| 35 | ter | to | PART | _ | 38 talk | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 talk | cop |
| 37 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 talk | det |
| 38 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | xcomp |
| 39 | er | of | ADP | _ | 41 naberhood | case |
| 40 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 naberhood | det |
| 41 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 talk | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Wolf | long head | Brer Wolf dislocated | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | broach on | past | Wolf | about Brer Rabbit's kyar'ns; sorter property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ceive | past | Brer Rabbit | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | participle · do-support | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the way not said here | the talk | of the naberhood | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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