Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 39
"Brer Rabbit talk so happy en talk so sweet dat Brer Fox he jump in de bucket, he did, en, ez he went down, co'se his weight pull Brer Rabbit up.
Who acts: talk, Rabbit talk, Brer · What happens: jump, go down, co'se, pull, rabbit up · To what, where: Brer Fox, de bucket, ez, weight
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 (talk, Rabbit talk, Brer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | compound |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 co'se | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | amod |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | compound |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | nmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sweet | advmod |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | amod |
| 11 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 13 Fox | case |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | compound |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweet | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jump | nsubj |
| 15 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 13 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bucket | case |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bucket | amod |
| 18 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jump | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 co'se | aux |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 en | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 did | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ez | punct |
| 25 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | appos |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ez | acl:relcl |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 co'se | punct |
| 30 | co'se | co'se | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 weight | nmod:poss |
| 32 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 co'se | obj |
| 33 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 co'se | xcomp |
| 34 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 35 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 pull | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 Rabbit | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 co'se | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in a quote | present | talk | Brer Fox not said here | de bucket | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme in bucket=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go down in a quote | past | talk | ez not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ez=Extent | |||
| 3 | co'se in a quote | past · do-support | Rabbit talk happy en talk | talk's weight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pull in a quote | infinitive | Rabbit talk happy en talk not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rabbit up in a quote | infinitive | Brer | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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