Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 41
"'Good-by, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, Fer dis is de way de worl' goes; Some goes up en some goes down, You'll git ter de bottom all safe en soun'.'
Who acts: Brer Fox, Fer dis, de worl, Some, You · What happens: take, be, go, go up, go down, ter · To what, where: yo cloze, de way, 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 (Brer Fox, Fer dis, de worl, Some), 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 | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fox | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 Good | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yo | compound |
| 12 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cloze | compound |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 yo | case |
| 14 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 16 | Fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 dis | amod |
| 17 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 way | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 way | compound |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 worl | compound |
| 22 | worl | worl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goes | nsubj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 worl | punct |
| 24 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 goes | punct |
| 26 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 goes | nsubj |
| 27 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 goes | compound:prt |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 goes | obl |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 goes | parataxis |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 goes | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ter | punct |
| 34 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 ter | nsubj |
| 35 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 ter | aux |
| 36 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ter | compound |
| 37 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 38 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 bottom | advmod |
| 39 | bottom | bottom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ter | amod |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 soun | det |
| 41 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 soun | amod |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 soun | compound |
| 43 | soun | soun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bottom | nsubj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 bottom | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox | yo cloze | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Fer dis | de way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | de worl | de way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go up in a quote | present | Some | en | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | go down in a quote | present | some | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | ter in a quote | future | You | 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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