Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 6
I'll des 'bout git in dar en take a nap,' en wid dat in he jump, he did, en he ain't no sooner fix hisse'f dan de bucket 'gun ter go down."
Who acts: I, git, en · What happens: take, jump, do, not be, go down · To what, where: nap, en wid dat
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 (I, git, en), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 3 | des | de | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 git | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 des | case |
| 5 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | compound |
| 6 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 en | case |
| 8 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 en | amod |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | nmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nap | det |
| 12 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dat | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 dat | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dat | compound |
| 16 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dat | compound |
| 17 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 jump | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 jump | nsubj |
| 20 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dat | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fix | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fix | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fix | nsubj |
| 27 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fix | cop |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fix | advmod |
| 29 | no | no | ADV | _ | 30 sooner | advmod |
| 30 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 fix | advmod |
| 31 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 32 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fix | obj |
| 33 | dan | dan | X | _ | 35 bucket | compound |
| 34 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 dan | flat:foreign |
| 35 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ter | compound |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 bucket | punct |
| 37 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ter | compound |
| 38 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fix | obj |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 fix | ccomp |
| 40 | down | down | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | a nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nap=Theme dat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | jump | infinitive | git | en wid dat not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | do | past | git | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | en | fix, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go down | infinitive | en not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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