Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 20
Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'tain't dat den he done gone en 'skiver'd a gole-mine, en ef 'tain't dat, den I'm a gwineter see w'at's in dar,' sezee.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit, money, Rabbit, I · What happens: keep, hide, not be, go, skiver, gwineter · To what, where: money, well, dat, gole mine · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brer Rabbit, money, Rabbit, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:857): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 dar | advmod |
| 3 | dar | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 keep | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | dat | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rabbit | compound |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 money | nmod:poss |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 14 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gone | cc |
| 15 | ef | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 dat | mark |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 dat | punct |
| 17 | tai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dat | cop |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 dat | advmod |
| 19 | dat | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 gone | advcl |
| 20 | den | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 gone | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | done | do | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 keep | conj |
| 24 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 skiver | cc |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 skiver | punct |
| 26 | skiver | skiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 gone | conj |
| 27 | 'd | 'd | X | _ | 26 skiver | goeswith |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mine | det |
| 29 | gole | gole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mine | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 mine | punct |
| 31 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skiver | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gwineter | punct |
| 33 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gwineter | cc |
| 34 | ef | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 dat | mark |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 dat | punct |
| 36 | tai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 dat | cop |
| 37 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 dat | advmod |
| 38 | dat | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 gwineter | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dat | punct |
| 40 | den | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 gwineter | advmod |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 gwineter | nsubj |
| 42 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 gwineter | aux |
| 43 | a | a | X | _ | 44 gwineter | dep |
| 44 | gwineter | gwineter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keep | conj |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 gwineter | xcomp |
| 46 | w'at | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 dar | nsubj |
| 47 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 dar | cop |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 dar | case |
| 49 | dar | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 see | ccomp |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 sezee | punct |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 52 | sezee | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | parataxis |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Brer Rabbit | Rabbit's money | that well; there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | Rabbit's money not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | present | Rabbit not said here | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | participle · do-support | Rabbit | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | skiver | participle | Rabbit not said here | a gole mine | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | present | I not said here | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | gwineter | present · progressive | I | then | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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