Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 12
W'y, der's er old gray rat w'at uses 'bout yer, en time atter time he comes out w'en you all done gone ter bed en sets up dar in de cornder en dozes, en me en him talks by de 'our; en w'at dat old rat dunno ain't down in de spellin' book.
Who acts: W'y der, w'at, w'en, me, en, w'at dat · What happens: use, come out, do, set up, en, talk · To what, where: bout, atter time, dar, w'at, en dozes
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'y der, w'at, w'en, me), 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 | W'y | W'y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 der | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 W'y | punct |
| 3 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 der | case |
| 5 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 w'at | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 w'at | amod |
| 7 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 w'at | amod |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'at | compound |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | nsubj |
| 10 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bout | punct |
| 12 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | obj |
| 13 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 bout | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bout | conj |
| 17 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | compound |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 comes | compound:prt |
| 22 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sets | nsubj:outer |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 sets | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 en | det |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 en | amod |
| 26 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bed | amod |
| 27 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bed | compound |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sets | nsubj |
| 30 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 comes | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 sets | compound:prt |
| 32 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sets | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 dozes | case |
| 34 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cornder | compound |
| 35 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 en | compound |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dozes | compound |
| 37 | dozes | doze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 talks | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 en | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 talks | nsubj |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 en | nsubj |
| 41 | en | en | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 en | acl:relcl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 en | obj |
| 43 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sets | parataxis |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 de | case |
| 45 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 talks | obl |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 de | punct |
| 47 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 dunno | nmod:poss |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 dat | punct |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 w'at | compound |
| 50 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 dat | compound |
| 51 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dunno | nsubj |
| 52 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 dunno | amod |
| 53 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dunno | compound |
| 54 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 ai | nsubj |
| 55 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 talks | conj |
| 56 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 57 down | advmod |
| 57 | down | down | ADV | _ | 55 ai | advmod |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 spellin | case |
| 59 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 60 spellin | compound |
| 60 | spellin | spellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 ai | obl |
| 61 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 60 spellin | punct |
| 62 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 spellin | conj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | W'y der | bout and en time and atter time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bout=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | w'at | atter time not said here | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | ||||
| 3 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | set up | present | w'en | dar | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dar=Result | ||||
| 5 | en | past | me | w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | talk | present | en | en dozes | by de | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | dunno | w'at dat | 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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