Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 7
Bimeby, to'rds de shank er de evenin', Brer Rabbit sorter stretch hisse'f, he did, en 'low hit's mos' time fer Brer Fox fer ter git 'long home.
Who acts: Bimeby to'rds, Brer, Brer Fox · What happens: shank, do, git · To what, where: de evenin, en
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 (Bimeby to'rds, Brer, Brer Fox), 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 | 3 to'rds | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 3 | to'rds | to'rd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shank | nsubj |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 to'rds | flat:foreign |
| 5 | shank | shank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 shank | advmod |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 evenin | compound |
| 8 | evenin | evenin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shank | obj |
| 9 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 8 evenin | dep |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 evenin | appos |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stretch | compound |
| 13 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hisse'f | compound |
| 14 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shank | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 21 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hit | amod |
| 22 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mos | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 hit | case |
| 24 | mos | mo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 time | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 mos | case |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | conj |
| 27 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 git | amod |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Fox | compound |
| 29 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 git | nsubj |
| 30 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 git | compound |
| 31 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 git | compound |
| 32 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 time | nmod |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 git | punct |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 home | amod |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 git | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shank | present | Bimeby to'rds | de evenin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Brer | en and low hit's mos's time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | git | Brer Fox | 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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