Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 14
He know Brer Rabbit wuz atter some projick er nudder, en he tuck'n crope off, he did, en watch 'im.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: know, crope off, do · To what, where: Brer, projick er nudder
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 | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 atter | compound |
| 6 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | list |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 nudder | det |
| 8 | projick | projick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nudder | amod |
| 9 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nudder | compound |
| 10 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nudder | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crope | nsubj |
| 14 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 15 crope | cc |
| 15 | crope | crope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nudder | acl:relcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 crope | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watch | compound |
| 22 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 im | compound |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 watch | case |
| 24 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | infinitive | Rabbit | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crope off | infinitive | Rabbit | some projick er nudder and en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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