Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 40
W'en dey pass one nudder on de half-way growl', Brer Rabbit he sing out:
Who acts: W'en dey, dey · What happens: pass, sing out · To what, where: one nudder, de way growl
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 (W'en dey, dey), 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'en | w'en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dey | amod |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nudder | nummod |
| 5 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pass | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 growl | case |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 growl | amod |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 way | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 half | punct |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 growl | compound |
| 11 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pass | obl |
| 12 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 11 growl | dep |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | compound |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 growl | appos |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sing | nsubj |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 growl | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sing | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | infinitive | W'en dey | one nudder | de way growl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme on growl=Destination | |||
| 2 | sing out speech: express | infinitive | dey | de way growl not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growl=Theme |
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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