Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 3
Bimeby dey 'gun ter git kinder familious wid wunner nudder like dey useter, en it got so Brer Fox'd call on Brer Rabbit, en dey'd set up en smoke der pipes, dey would, like no ha'sh feelin's 'd ever rested 'twixt um.
Who acts: en, Brer, en dey · What happens: get, call, set up, rest · To what, where: en, smoke der pipes, twixt um · 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, Brer, en dey), 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 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 dey | punct |
| 4 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | compound |
| 5 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | compound |
| 6 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nudder | amod |
| 8 | familious | familious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nudder | amod |
| 9 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nudder | amod |
| 10 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nudder | compound |
| 11 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | nmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 useter | case |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 useter | compound |
| 14 | useter | useter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nudder | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nudder | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 call | advmod |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 call | nsubj |
| 21 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 call | aux |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Rabbit | case |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rabbit | compound |
| 26 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 call | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dey | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dey | compound |
| 29 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | nsubj |
| 30 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 set | aux |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nudder | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 set | compound:prt |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 smoke | compound |
| 34 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pipes | compound |
| 35 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 pipes | amod |
| 36 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 set | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 would | punct |
| 38 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 would | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pipes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 'd | punct |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 'd | case |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 feelin | det |
| 43 | ha'sh | ha'sh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 feelin | compound |
| 44 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 'd | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 feelin | case |
| 46 | 'd | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rested | obl |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 rested | advmod |
| 48 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 would | dep |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 um | punct |
| 50 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 um | compound |
| 51 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rested | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 git | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | en | en not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | would | Brer | on Brer Rabbit | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set up | would | en dey | smoke der pipes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pipe=Result | ||||
| 4 | rest | past | twixt um | ever | like no ha'sh feelin's 'd | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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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