Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 15
Den Brer Wolf up'n tell 'im dat de way fer ter git de drap on Brer Rabbit wuz ter git 'im in Brer Fox house.
Who acts: git · What happens: tell, drap · To what, where: Rabbit ter git · 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 (git), 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 | 11 fer | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Den | conj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dat | punct |
| 7 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dat | compound |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fer | nsubj |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 way | compound |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fer | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 13 git | case |
| 13 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drap | nsubj |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 git | flat:foreign |
| 15 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fer | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 git | case |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 git | compound |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ter | compound |
| 20 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 git | compound |
| 21 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drap | obl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 im | punct |
| 23 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 git | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Brer | case |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 im | nmod |
| 26 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Brer | flat |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 im | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | drap | present | git | Rabbit ter git and im in Brer | 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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