Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 33
"By dis time Brer Rabbit done come ter de do', wid his head tied up in a red hankcher.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, come, wid, tie up · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, ter, head, red hankcher
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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Rabbit | acl |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obj |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 ter | flat:foreign |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ', | aux |
| 12 | ', | ', | X | _ | 13 wid | punct |
| 13 | wid | wid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wid | obj |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wid | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 tied | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hankcher | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hankcher | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hankcher | amod |
| 21 | hankcher | hankcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | Brer Rabbit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ter | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme | |||
| 3 | wid in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Rabbit's head | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tie up in a quote | participle | you not said here | a red hankcher | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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