Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 23
Atter while he onslung his game-bag, en say ter hisse'f, sezee:
Who acts: Atter · What happens: onslung, say · To what, where: game bag, ter hisse'f · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Atter), 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 | Atter | Atter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 onslung | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 onslung | nsubj |
| 4 | onslung | onslung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Atter | acl:relcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bag | nmod:poss |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bag | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 game | punct |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 onslung | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Atter | appos |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hisse'f | compound |
| 13 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 15 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hisse'f | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | onslung | past | Atter | Fox's game bag | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Atter | ter hisse'f and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Topic |
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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