Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 17
Brer Wolf, he see how de lan' lay, he did, en he lay low.
Who acts: Brer, en · What happens: see, lie, do · To what, where: de lan, en
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 (Brer, 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brer | conj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 de | advmod |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lan | amod |
| 8 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 lan | punct |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lay | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Brer | de lan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Brer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Brer | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | en | en not said here | low property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=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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