Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 14
My ole 'oman done gone en tuck mighty sick,' sezee.
Who acts: ole oman · What happens: do · To what, where: gone en tuck
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole oman), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ole | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oman | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ole | punct |
| 4 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tuck | amod |
| 7 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tuck | amod |
| 8 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | amod |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tuck | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | ole oman | gone en tuck | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuck=Eventuality |
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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