Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 24
So den he amble off home, en Brer Wolf, he march off ter Brer Rabbit house.
Who acts: Dis · What happens: amble, march off · To what, where: home
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 (Dis), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 amble | advmod |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amble | compound |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 amble | nsubj |
| 4 | amble | amble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amble | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 home | conj |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 en | appos |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 march | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 march | nsubj |
| 13 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 amble | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 march | compound:prt |
| 15 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | compound |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 march | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amble | present | Dis | home and en | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off home=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | march off | present | Dis | ter Rabbit house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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