Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 11
He can't leave home 'cep' Brer Wolf 'ud make a raid en tote off some er de fambly.
Who acts: Rabbit, ud · What happens: not leave, make · To what, where: home, en tote
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, ud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cep | punct |
| 7 | cep | cep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cep | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ud | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Brer | case |
| 12 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tote | det |
| 15 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | compound |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tote | compound |
| 17 | tote | tote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 er | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 er | det |
| 20 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tote | appos |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 er | flat:foreign |
| 22 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | can | Rabbit | home | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent home=Theme cep=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Brer's ud | a en tote | fambly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tote=Product |
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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