Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 10
He know whar he cum fum, but he dunner whar he gwine.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: know, fum, gwine · To what, where: whar
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fum | nsubj |
| 5 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fum | nsubj |
| 6 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whar | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gwine | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gwine | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dunner | nsubj |
| 10 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 whar | amod |
| 11 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gwine | compound |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gwine | nsubj |
| 13 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Rabbit | whar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fum | infinitive | Rabbit | whar not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gwine | Rabbit | 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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