Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 2
Bofe un um wuz allers atter wunner nudder, a prankin' en a pesterin' 'roun', but Brer Rabbit did had some peace, kaze Brer Fox done got skittish 'bout puttin' de clamps on Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Bofe allers, wunner nudder, peace · What happens: atter, have, do, get · To what, where: peace
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 (Bofe allers, wunner nudder, peace), 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 | Bofe | Bofe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 allers | compound |
| 2 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Bofe | dep |
| 3 | um | um | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Bofe | dep |
| 4 | wuz | wuz | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Bofe | flat:foreign |
| 5 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 atter | nsubj |
| 6 | atter | atter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nudder | compound |
| 8 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prankin | det |
| 11 | prankin | prankin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 prankin | case |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nudder | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pesterin | det |
| 15 | pesterin | pesterin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roun | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 pesterin | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 18 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | nmod |
| 19 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Brer | cc |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 roun | conj |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Brer | flat |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | aux |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 atter | advcl |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 peace | det |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kaze | punct |
| 28 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 peace | conj |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Fox | compound |
| 30 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kaze | conj |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 peace | acl:relcl |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | ccomp |
| 33 | skittish | skittish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 skittish | punct |
| 35 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 36 puttin | case |
| 36 | puttin | puttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 clamps | punct |
| 38 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clamps | compound |
| 39 | clamps | clamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 puttin | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 Rabbit | case |
| 41 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Rabbit | compound |
| 42 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 clamps | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 atter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | atter | present | Bofe allers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past · do-support | wunner nudder and a prankin's en a pesterin's roun but Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | some peace and kaze and Brer Fox not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | past | some peace and kaze and Brer Fox | bout puttin and de clamps on Brer Rabbit; skittish property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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