Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 12
Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house out'n pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made 'im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los' a house he los' one er his chilluns.
Who acts: en, den, en dat, en dat wuz, house · What happens: hit, tor down, make, go, im, raid on · To what, where: Brer Rabbit b'ilt, wuz, house, de same way, en dat wuz, bark house
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 (en, den, en dat, en dat wuz), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 b'ilt | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 b'ilt | compound |
| 3 | b'ilt | b'ilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | nmod:desc |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 5 | im | im | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | nsubj |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | wuz | wuz | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 tored | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | tored | tor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hit | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 tored | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hit | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | out'n | out'n | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tops | amod |
| 22 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tops | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pine | punct |
| 24 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dat | compound |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 29 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 33 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | nsubj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hit | conj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 im | punct |
| 37 | im | im | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 made | xcomp |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 39 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 house | compound |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 im | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 wuz | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wuz | compound |
| 43 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wuz | compound |
| 44 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obl |
| 45 | raided | raid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 wuz | acl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 raided | compound:prt |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 en | punct |
| 48 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wuz | conj |
| 49 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 time | compound |
| 50 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 en | conj |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 los | nsubj |
| 52 | los | los | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 time | acl:relcl |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 57 los | punct |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 house | det |
| 55 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 los | nsubj |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 los | nsubj |
| 57 | los | los | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 los | conj |
| 58 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 59 one | punct |
| 59 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 los | obj |
| 60 | er | er | ADP | _ | 62 chilluns | case |
| 61 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 62 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 one | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | en | Brer Rabbit b'ilt | im a straw house | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tor down | participle · passive | wuz | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | den | a house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset house=Beneficiary top=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | past | en dat | de same way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | den | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | im | infinitive | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time not said here | a bark house | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | raid on | participle | en dat wuz and en and eve'y time not said here | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | los | past | den | eve'y time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | los | past | a house | one | er en's chilluns | 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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