Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 11
Brer Fox he come 'long, he did, en see Brer Rabbit layin' dar.
Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, en · What happens: come, do, see · To what, where: Brer
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 Fox, Fox, 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 | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | layin | layin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | list |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 dar | punct |
| 17 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 layin | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Brer Fox | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | en | Brer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=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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