Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 26
"En wid dat he drapt his game en loped back up de road atter de udder rabbit, en w'en he got outer sight, ole Brer Rabbit, he snatch up Brer Fox game en put out fer home.
Who acts: En, Hunter, game en · What happens: wi, drapt, lope, get, snatch up, put out · To what, where: dat, outer sight, game en · 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 (En, Hunter, game en), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wid | punct |
| 2 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wid | nsubj |
| 3 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wid | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drapt | nsubj |
| 6 | drapt | drapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wid | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 en | nmod:poss |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loped | nsubj |
| 10 | loped | lope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drapt | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 loped | advmod |
| 13 | de | de | ADP | _ | 15 atter | case |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atter | compound |
| 15 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loped | obl |
| 16 | de | de | ADP | _ | 18 rabbit | case |
| 17 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rabbit | compound |
| 18 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atter | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 w'en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 w'en | compound |
| 21 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atter | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 24 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sight | amod |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Rabbit | punct |
| 27 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Rabbit | amod |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rabbit | compound |
| 29 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sight | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 snatch | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 snatch | nsubj |
| 32 | snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 wid | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 snatch | compound:prt |
| 34 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 snatch | xcomp |
| 35 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Brer | flat |
| 36 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 en | compound |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Brer | appos |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 en | acl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 put | compound:prt |
| 40 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | compound |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 put | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi in a quote | past | En | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drapt in a quote | past | Hunter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lope in a quote | past | Hunter's game en | de road atter de udder rabbit and en w'en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | Hunter | outer sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | snatch up in a quote | present | Hunter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | put out in a quote | participle | game en not said here | home property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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