Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 46
Den he look in, en dar lay Brer Fox stretch out on de bed des es big ez life.
Who acts: W'en, en dar, Brer · What happens: look in, lie, stretch out · To what, where: Den, de des es
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, en dar, Brer), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dar | compound |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stretch | nsubj |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretch | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 es | case |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 es | compound |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 des | compound |
| 16 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 es | compound |
| 17 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretch | obl |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 life | amod |
| 19 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 life | amod |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 es | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in | present | W'en | Den | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | en dar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | present | Brer | de des es big ez life | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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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