Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 31
"Den ole Brer Rabbit, he laff, he did, en up en 'spon', sezee: 'Ef I'd a know'd you wuz atter dat, Brer Fox, I'd a loant you some er mine,' sezee."
Who acts: ole, Den ole, you · What happens: laff, do, en up, wuz, er · To what, where: en, atter dat, Hunter
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 (ole, Den ole, you), 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 ole | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | appos |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laff | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laff | nsubj |
| 8 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ole | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 did | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 en | compound:prt |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 sezee | punct |
| 17 | spon | spon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sezee | compound |
| 18 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 17 spon | dep |
| 19 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 'd | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ef | punct |
| 22 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 'd | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 'd | nsubj |
| 24 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 know | det |
| 26 | know | know | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 'd | obj |
| 27 | 'd | 'd | SCONJ | _ | 29 wuz | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 wuz | nsubj |
| 29 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 'd | advcl |
| 30 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dat | compound |
| 31 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wuz | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Fox | punct |
| 33 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Fox | compound |
| 34 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dat | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 'd | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 'd | nsubj |
| 37 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 loant | det |
| 39 | loant | loant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 'd | obj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 er | nsubj |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 er | nsubj |
| 42 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 loant | acl:relcl |
| 43 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 er | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sezee | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 sezee | punct |
| 46 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 'd | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laff in a quote | ole | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Den ole | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | en up in a quote | infinitive | Den ole not said here | en and spon sezee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wuz in a quote | present | you | atter dat | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | er in a quote | present | you | Hunter | 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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