Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 13
Den Brer Fox en Brer Wolf dey sorter palavered on, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Wolf he up'n say dat he done got plan fix fer ter trap Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Brer dey sorter, dey, dat · What happens: palaver, do, say, get · To what, where: Den Fox en, twel bimeby, dat, plan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brer dey sorter, dey, dat), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 en | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 en | compound |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palavered | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sorter | compound |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorter | compound |
| 8 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palavered | nsubj |
| 9 | palavered | palaver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 palavered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bimeby | punct |
| 15 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bimeby | compound |
| 16 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bimeby | appos |
| 18 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 say | nsubj |
| 20 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 21 say | cc |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 palavered | parataxis |
| 22 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 say | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dat | acl:relcl |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 dat | acl |
| 26 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 27 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fer | compound |
| 28 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trap | compound |
| 29 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trap | compound |
| 30 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plan | appos |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 trap | appos |
| 32 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Brer | flat |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 palavered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | palaver | past | Brer dey sorter | Den Fox en | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | dey | twel bimeby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | dey | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past | dey | dat not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | participle | dat not said here | plan | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=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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