Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 22
Bimeby he git up close en peep down, but he don't see nuthin' en he don't year nuthin'.
Who acts: crope · What happens: git, not see, not nuthin · To what, where: en
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 (crope), 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 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 git | compound |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 git | nsubj |
| 3 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peep | nsubj |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 close | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peep | amod |
| 6 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peep | amod |
| 7 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 peep | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 peep | parataxis |
| 15 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 nuthin | case |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nuthin | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nuthin | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 nuthin | advmod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nuthin | compound |
| 22 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | parataxis |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 nuthin | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 peep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | git | crope | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not see | infinitive · do-support | crope | nuthin's en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not nuthin | present · do-support | crope | tree rules |
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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