Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 19
Brer Fox, he sorter lick his chops, but he went on en lef' Brer Rabbit layin' in de road.
Who acts: Fox, Brer Fox · What happens: sorter, lick, go, chop · To what, where: chops, en lef
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 (Fox, Brer Fox), 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 | 6 lick | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorter | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sorter | nsubj |
| 5 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 6 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chops | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chops | chop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lick | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lick | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 lef | case |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lef | compound |
| 15 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 layin | punct |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 layin | compound |
| 19 | layin | layin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lef | appos |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 layin | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 22 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 road | compound |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorter | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lick | infinitive | Brer Fox and sorter | Fox's chops | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chop=Source | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Fox | en lef | in de road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lef=Location | |||
| 4 | chop | Fox | nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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