Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 13
Las' Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cusst, en den he went off, he did, en got some kyarpinters, en dey b'ilt 'im a plank house wid rock foundashuns.
Who acts: Las, Rabbit, en · What happens: get, do, go off · To what, where: en cusst, en den, kyarpinters
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 (Las, Rabbit, en), 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 | Las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Las | case |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Las | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cusst | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cusst | compound |
| 12 | cusst | cusst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 den | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 den | compound |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cusst | appos |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 den | acl:relcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 kyarpinters | det |
| 26 | kyarpinters | kyarpinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 b'ilt | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dey | compound |
| 29 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 b'ilt | compound |
| 30 | b'ilt | b'ilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kyarpinters | appos |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 b'ilt | punct |
| 32 | im | im | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 house | det |
| 34 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 house | compound |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 36 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 foundashuns | amod |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 foundashuns | compound |
| 38 | foundashuns | foundashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 got | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Las Brer Rabbit | mad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Rabbit | en cusst | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cusst=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | Rabbit | en den not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | past | en | some kyarpinters | im a plank house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent kyarpinter=Beneficiary foundashun=Theme |
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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