Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 8
Den Brer Rabbit, he went'n mounted a stump fer ter see ef he could year Brer Fox comin'.
Who acts: Fox, Den went'n · What happens: went'n, mount, see, comin · To what, where: fer ter, ef
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, Den went'n), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went'n | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went'n | nsubj |
| 6 | went'n | went'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | nsubj |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ter | det |
| 9 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fer | compound |
| 10 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | obj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mounted | conj |
| 13 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 comin | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 comin | aux |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comin | nsubj |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 comin | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comin | compound |
| 19 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ef | appos |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 comin | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | went'n | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mount | past | Den went'n | a fer ter | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Den went'n not said here | ef | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | comin | could | 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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