Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 44
"'I'm bo'in' little holes so you kin get bref, Brer Wolf.'
Who acts: Tobacco, little holes · What happens: be, kin, get · To what, where: bo'in, bref
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 (Tobacco, little holes), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bo'in | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bo'in | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bo'in | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bo'in | cop |
| 5 | bo'in | bo'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bo'in | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 holes | amod |
| 8 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kin | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 kin | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kin | nsubj |
| 11 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bo'in | parataxis |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kin | xcomp |
| 13 | bref | bref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wolf | punct |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wolf | compound |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bref | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bo'in | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bo'in | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Tobacco | bo'in | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kin in a quote | present | little holes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | little holes not said here | bref | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bref=Stimulus |
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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