Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 24
W'ile he sayin' his pra'rs over like a train er kyars runnin', ole Brer Fox holler out:
Who acts: crope · What happens: sayin
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 | W'ile | W'ile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sayin | compound |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sayin | nsubj |
| 3 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holler | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sayin | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pra'rs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pra'rs | pra'r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 holler | nsubj |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 runnin | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 runnin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 runnin | det |
| 10 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 er | compound |
| 11 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kyars | compound |
| 12 | kyars | kyar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 runnin | compound |
| 13 | runnin | runnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holler | nsubj |
| 14 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 13 runnin | dep |
| 15 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 holler | amod |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holler | compound |
| 18 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 holler | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 holler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sayin | 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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