Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 6
He wuz gone all day, en he had a monstus streak er luck, Brer Fox did, en he bagged a sight er game.
Who acts: Fox, Brer · What happens: wuz, have, do, bag · To what, where: er luck, en, sight
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 (Fox, Brer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wuz | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wuz | xcomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 en | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 luck | det |
| 11 | monstus | monstus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 streak | compound |
| 12 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | compound |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 luck | compound |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 did | nsubj |
| 17 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wuz | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 did | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bagged | nsubj |
| 22 | bagged | bag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 en | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bagged | obj |
| 25 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 game | amod |
| 26 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | Fox | day | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Fox | a er luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Brer | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bag | past | Fox | a sight and er game | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sight=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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