Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 13
"Brer Fox allers got one eye on Brer Rabbit, en w'en he slip off fum de new groun', Brer Fox he sneak atter 'im.
Who acts: Fox allers, Rabbit, fum new groun · What happens: get, slip off, fox, sneak · To what, where: one eye, en w'en, im
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 (Fox allers, Rabbit, fum new groun), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 allers | compound |
| 4 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eye | nummod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Rabbit | case |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | compound |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 w'en | compound |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | appos |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slip | nsubj |
| 15 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 slip | compound:prt |
| 17 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 groun | compound |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 fum | flat:foreign |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 groun | amod |
| 20 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | nsubj |
| 21 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 20 groun | dep |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slip | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sneak | nsubj |
| 25 | sneak | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 23 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 26 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 im | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 atter | case |
| 28 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sneak | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Fox allers | one eye | on Brer Rabbit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on rabbit=Source | |||
| 2 | slip off in a quote | infinitive | Rabbit | en w'en not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent w'en=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fox in a quote | fum new groun | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sneak in a quote | present | Rabbit | atter's im | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent im=Agent |
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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