Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 18

De little Rabbits was mighty skittish, but hit got so dat col' chills ain't run up Brer Rabbit's back no mo' w'en he heerd Brer Wolf go gallopin' by.

Who acts: De little Rabbits, hit, Rabbit, mo w'en · What happens: be, get, not run up, heer, go · To what, where: chills, back, Brer Wolf, gallopin

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 (De little Rabbits, hit, Rabbit, mo w'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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbits	compound
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Rabbits	amod
3	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skittish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skittish	cop
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skittish	amod
6	skittish	skittish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
9	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 run	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 dat	advmod
12	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 col	amod
13	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chills	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 col	case
15	chills	chill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
16	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 run	advmod
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 skittish	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 run	compound:prt
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod:poss
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	flat
22	's	's	PART	_	20 Brer	case
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 w'en	det
25	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	compound
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 w'en	punct
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heerd	nsubj
29	heerd	heer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 w'en	acl:relcl
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Wolf	compound
31	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 heerd	obj
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	parataxis
33	gallopin	gallopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obj
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 gallopin	punct
35	by	by	ADP	_	32 go	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 skittish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	De little Rabbits		skittish property	tree rules
2	get	past	hit	dat col's chills		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chill=Stimulus
3	not run up	present	De little Rabbits not said here	Brer's back		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory
4	heer	past	Rabbit	Brer Wolf		tree rules
5	go	present	no mo w'en	gallopin		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallopin=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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