Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 16
He de fattes' rabbit w'at I ever see, but he bin dead too long.
Who acts: Rabbit, rabbit w'at · What happens: de, see, bin
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 (Rabbit, rabbit w'at), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 de | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fattes | fatte | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 fattes | case |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'at | compound |
| 6 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 de | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bin | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bin | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bin | nsubj |
| 13 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | conj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bin | xcomp |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 bin | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 de | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | past | Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | fattes's rabbit w'at | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | bin | present | Rabbit | dead, long property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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