Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 1
"ATTER Brer Fox hear 'bout how Brer Rabbit done Brer Wolf," said Uncle Remus, scratching his head with the point of his awl, 'he 'low, he did, dat he better not be so brash, en he sorter let Brer Rabbit 'lone.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, scratch, do, dat, not be, let · To what, where: head, brash, en, awl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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 hear | punct |
| 2 | ATTER | ATTER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | compound |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ATTER | flat |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | compound |
| 5 | hear | hear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 7 | bout | bout | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 said | advmod |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | done | done | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Brer | list |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 done | flat |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brer | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | acl |
| 17 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Remus | compound |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scratching | punct |
| 20 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scratching | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 point | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 point | det |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scratching | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 awl | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 awl | nmod:poss |
| 28 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 point | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 low | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 low | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 low | nsubj |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 low | punct |
| 33 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scratching | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 did | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 low | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dat | punct |
| 38 | dat | dat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 better | nsubj |
| 40 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 dat | advmod |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 brash | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 brash | cop |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 brash | advmod |
| 44 | brash | brash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 better | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 en | punct |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brash | conj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 let | nsubj |
| 48 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 let | nsubj |
| 49 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 en | acl:relcl |
| 50 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Rabbit | compound |
| 51 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 lone | nmod:poss |
| 52 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 51 Rabbit | case |
| 53 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 let | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scratch | gerund | Brer not said here | Remus's head | with the point of Remus's awl | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with point=Instrument | |||
| 3 | do | past | Brer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dat | infinitive | Brer not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a | infinitive | brash and en | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | let | past | Brer | en not said here | lone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | |||
| 7 | point | Remus's awl | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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