Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 59
"Sho' nuff, Brer Fox lif' up his foot en holler wahoo! en Brer Rabbit he tear out de house like de dogs wuz atter 'im.
Who acts: Brer, de dogs · What happens: tear out, wuz · To what, where: de house, im
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 (Brer, de dogs), 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 | _ | 2 Sho | punct |
| 2 | Sho | Sho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 en | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sho | punct |
| 4 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sho | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lif | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lif | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lif | compound |
| 8 | lif | lif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sho | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 lif | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 wahoo | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wahoo | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | compound |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holler | compound |
| 14 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wahoo | compound |
| 15 | wahoo | wahoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lif | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sho | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tear | nsubj |
| 19 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | flat |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tear | nsubj |
| 21 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tear | compound:prt |
| 23 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | compound |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tear | obj |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 28 wuz | mark |
| 26 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dogs | compound |
| 27 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wuz | nsubj |
| 28 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tear | advcl |
| 29 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 im | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 29 atter | case |
| 31 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wuz | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear out in a quote | infinitive | Brer Sho en | de house | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wuz in a quote | present | de dogs | atter's im | 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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