Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 4
"Las', one day Brer Fox come 'long all rig out, en ax Brer Rabbit fer ter go huntin' wid 'im, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter feel lazy, en he tell Brer Fox dat he got some udder fish fer ter fry.
Who acts: Las, fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit · What happens: come, rig out, go, sorter, feel, tell · To what, where: en ax, Brer Fox dat, udder fish · 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 (Las, fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit), 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 | _ | 2 Las | punct |
| 2 | Las | Las | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 3 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 2 Las | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Las | appos |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | appos |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brer | flat |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 rig | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rig | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 rig | advmod |
| 12 | rig | rig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 rig | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ax | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ax | compound |
| 16 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ax | appos |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 ter | amod |
| 20 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | conj |
| 22 | huntin | huntin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wid | punct |
| 24 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 huntin | appos |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wid | punct |
| 26 | im | im | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 go | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 feel | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 feel | cc |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Rabbit | compound |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 feel | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sorter | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sorter | nsubj |
| 33 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Rabbit | appos |
| 34 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | parataxis |
| 35 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feel | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 en | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 feel | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 tell | nsubj |
| 39 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 en | parataxis |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 dat | compound |
| 41 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dat | compound |
| 42 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tell | obj |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 got | nsubj |
| 44 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 dat | acl:relcl |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 fish | det |
| 46 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fish | compound |
| 47 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 got | obj |
| 48 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 fry | amod |
| 49 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fry | compound |
| 50 | fry | fry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fish | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Las | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rig out in a quote | present | Las not said here | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | fer ter | en ax | im obl:unmarked | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location huntin=Theme | |||
| 4 | sorter in a quote | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | infinitive | Brer Rabbit | lazy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Rabbit | Brer Fox dat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | past | Rabbit | some udder fish and fer ter fry | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
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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