Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 44
"'Ye come a man wid a great big gun--W'en he haul you up, you jump en run."'
Who acts: Ye, man, W'en, you · What happens: come, wi, haul up, jump · To what, where: great big gun, you, en run · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ye, man, W'en, you), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 3 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | nsubj |
| 7 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gun | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gun | amod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gun | amod |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 haul | punct |
| 13 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 haul | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 haul | nsubj |
| 15 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 haul | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 haul | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jump | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 jump | nsubj |
| 20 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 haul | conj |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | compound |
| 22 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jump | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Ye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wi in a quote | past | a man | a great big gun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | haul up in a quote | infinitive | W'en | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump in a quote | present | you | en run | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme run=Trajectory |
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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