Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 46
"In des 'bout half 'n hour, honey, bofe un um wuz back in de new groun' wukkin' des like dey never heer'd er no well, ceppin' dat eve'y now'n den Brer Rabbit'd bust out in er laff, en old Brer Fox, he'd git a spell er de dry grins."
Who acts: wukkin des, Brer, heer · What happens: er, bust out, git · To what, where: well, de new groun, dat eve'y, er laff, spell er
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 (wukkin des, Brer, heer), 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 | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 bout | case |
| 3 | des | de | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bout | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 des | case |
| 5 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | obl |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 hour | amod |
| 7 | 'n | 'n | PART | _ | 6 half | conj |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bout | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honey | punct |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bout | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bout | punct |
| 12 | bofe | bofe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 um | compound |
| 13 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 um | compound |
| 14 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | compound |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 wuz | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 groun | case |
| 18 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 groun | compound |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 groun | amod |
| 20 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 er | obl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 wukkin | punct |
| 22 | wukkin | wukkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 des | compound |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 wukkin | punct |
| 24 | des | de | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 er | nsubj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 dey | case |
| 26 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 des | nmod |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 heer | advmod |
| 28 | heer | heer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 er | nsubj |
| 29 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 er | aux |
| 30 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wuz | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 well | det |
| 32 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 er | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ceppin | punct |
| 34 | ceppin | ceppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 well | conj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 eve'y | punct |
| 36 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eve'y | compound |
| 37 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ceppin | appos |
| 38 | now'n | now'n | CCONJ | _ | 39 den | cc |
| 39 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eve'y | conj |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 bust | nsubj |
| 41 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Brer | flat |
| 42 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 bust | aux |
| 43 | bust | bust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 eve'y | acl:relcl |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 bust | compound:prt |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 laff | case |
| 46 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 laff | amod |
| 47 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bust | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 en | punct |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laff | conj |
| 50 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Fox | amod |
| 51 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Fox | compound |
| 52 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 en | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 git | punct |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 git | nsubj |
| 55 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 git | aux |
| 56 | git | git | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 er | conj |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 er | det |
| 58 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 er | compound |
| 59 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 git | obj |
| 60 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 59 er | flat:foreign |
| 61 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 grins | amod |
| 62 | grins | grin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 git | obj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er in a quote | would | wukkin des like dey | no well and ceppin | de new groun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bust out in a quote | past · perfect | Brer | dat eve'y now'n den not said here | er laff and en and old Brer Fox | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve'y=Patient | |||
| 3 | git in a quote | would | heer | a spell er | 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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