Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 17
He sot off dar in de bushes en study en study, but he don't make no head ner tails ter dis kinder bizness.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: not make · To what, where: ner tails
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), 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 sot | nsubj |
| 2 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 dar | compound:prt |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sot | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bushes | case |
| 6 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushes | compound |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dar | conj |
| 8 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 study | amod |
| 9 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | compound |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 study | compound |
| 11 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sot | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 tails | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ner | compound |
| 20 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tails | compound |
| 21 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 22 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 23 dis | case |
| 23 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 24 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 bizness | amod |
| 25 | bizness | bizness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dis | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | Fox | no ner tails | ter dis and kinder bizness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Product |
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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