Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 25
I'll des 'bout leave my game yer, en I'll go back'n git dat udder rabbit, en I'll make fokes b'leeve dat I'm ole man Hunter fum Huntsville,' sezee.
Who acts: I, en, git, Hunter · What happens: leave, go, rabbit, make, be, fum · To what, where: game, fokes, ole man, Huntsville
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 (I, en, git, Hunter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 3 | des | de | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 des | case |
| 5 | bout | bout | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 game | nmod:poss |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 leave | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 leave | parataxis |
| 15 | back'n | back'n | CCONJ | _ | 19 rabbit | cc |
| 16 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rabbit | nsubj |
| 17 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rabbit | compound |
| 18 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rabbit | compound |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rabbit | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rabbit | parataxis |
| 25 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | b'leeve | b'leeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dat | compound |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fokes | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 man | nsubj |
| 29 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 man | cop |
| 30 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fokes | acl |
| 32 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 fum | nsubj |
| 33 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 man | acl:relcl |
| 34 | Huntsville | Huntsville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 fum | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 37 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Huntsville | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | I | my game | y property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | future | en | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rabbit | git | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | future | I | fokes and b'leeve dat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foke=Product | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | I | ole man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fum | present | Hunter | Huntsville | tree rules |
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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