Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 43
"W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de well blong ter dat Brer Fox wuz down in dar muddyin' up de drinkin' water, en den he gallop back ter de well, en holler down ter Brer Fox:
Who acts: W'en, Fox · What happens: get out, gallop off, gallop back · To what, where: tole fokes w'at, blong, dar muddyin
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, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W'en | flat |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gallop | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gallop | nsubj |
| 9 | gallop | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 gallop | compound:prt |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tole | compound |
| 12 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | compound |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 tole | flat:foreign |
| 14 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 w'at | compound |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gallop | obj |
| 16 | de | de | ADV | _ | 18 blong | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 blong | advmod |
| 18 | blong | blong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gallop | obl |
| 19 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 20 dat | case |
| 20 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blong | obl |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wuz | compound |
| 22 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wuz | compound |
| 23 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blong | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 wuz | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 muddyin | case |
| 26 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 muddyin | amod |
| 27 | muddyin | muddyin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gallop | obl |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 muddyin | punct |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 drinkin | case |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 drinkin | compound |
| 31 | drinkin | drinkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 muddyin | nmod |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 drinkin | punct |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drinkin | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 den | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 den | compound |
| 36 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drinkin | conj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gallop | nsubj |
| 38 | gallop | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 9 gallop | conj |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 gallop | advmod |
| 40 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gallop | obj |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 ter | conj |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 de | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 holler | punct |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 holler | compound |
| 45 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ter | conj |
| 46 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 gallop | compound:prt |
| 47 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Fox | compound |
| 48 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Fox | compound |
| 49 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gallop | obj |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out in a quote | past | W'en | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gallop off in a quote | present | Fox | tole fokes w'at | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gallop back in a quote | present | Fox | blong and Brer Fox wuz | dar muddyin up de drinkin and water and en den | 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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