Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 25
W'en he got dar, hit look like nobody at home, but Brer Wolf he walk up en knock on de do'--blam! blam!
Who acts: W'en, Brer Wolf · What happens: get, hit, look, walk up, do, blam · To what, where: en knock, de
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 (W'en, Brer Wolf), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 look | advcl |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 nobody | case |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walk | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 walk | cc |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wolf | compound |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walk | nsubj |
| 17 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 walk | compound:prt |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knock | compound |
| 20 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 de | case |
| 22 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | obl |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | parataxis |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 blam | punct |
| 26 | blam | blam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 blam | punct |
| 28 | blam | blam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | W'en | dar property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hit | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | present | W'en not said here | like nobody; at home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk up | infinitive | Brer Wolf | en knock | de | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent knock=Theme on de=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | blam | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | blam | present | 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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