Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 21
Brer Fox, he come up, en dar lay Brer Rabbit, periently col' en stiff.
Who acts: Brer Fox, en dar · What happens: come up, lie · To what, where: Brer Rabbit
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, en dar), 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 | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dar | compound |
| 9 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | compound |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 col | punct |
| 14 | periently | periently | ADV | _ | 15 col | advmod |
| 15 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 col | conj |
| 18 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 en | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | present | Brer Fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | en dar | Brer Rabbit | col and en obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rabbit=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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