Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 2
Dey wuz all time seein' one nudder, en 'bunnunce er times Brer Fox could er nab Brer Rabbit, but eve'y time he got de chance, his mine 'ud sorter rezume 'bout Brer Wolf, en he let Brer Rabbit 'lone.
Who acts: er times, Brer, mine · What happens: er, nab, get, bout, let · To what, where: en, Brer, de chance
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 (er times, Brer, mine), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 seein | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seein | compound |
| 5 | seein | seein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | appos |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seein | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 nudder | nummod |
| 8 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seein | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nudder | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 times | punct |
| 12 | bunnunce | bunnunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | compound |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 times | compound |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 er | nsubj |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | compound |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 times | conj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 er | aux |
| 18 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 er | xcomp |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 nab | obj |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 got | cc |
| 24 | eve'y | eve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Brer | acl:relcl |
| 28 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chance | amod |
| 29 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bout | punct |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bout | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bout | nsubj |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 bout | punct |
| 34 | ud | ud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rezume | amod |
| 35 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rezume | compound |
| 36 | rezume | rezume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bout | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 36 rezume | case |
| 38 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | appos |
| 39 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 bout | appos |
| 40 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Brer | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 en | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | appos |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | nsubj |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 en | acl:relcl |
| 45 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Rabbit | compound |
| 46 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 lone | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 46 Rabbit | case |
| 48 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 let | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er | could | er times and Brer Fox | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nab | infinitive | er times and Brer Fox not said here | Brer | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Brer | de chance | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bout | mine | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | let | past | Brer | en not said here | lone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
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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