Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 2
Atter w'ile de roof sorter 'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, 'semble fer ter see ef dey can't kinder patch her up.
Who acts: Brer, ef dey · What happens: see up, patch · To what, where: Brer
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 (Brer, ef dey), 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 | Atter | Atter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 w'ile | compound |
| 2 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorter | nsubj |
| 3 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorter | amod |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorter | compound |
| 5 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 leak | punct |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ter | compound |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leak | compound |
| 9 | leak | leak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorter | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leak | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leak | conj |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 day | appos |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leak | conj |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fox | compound |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leak | conj |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 en | appos |
| 23 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 26 | semble | semble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fer | compound |
| 27 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ter | compound |
| 28 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | compound |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Brer | acl |
| 30 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dey | compound |
| 31 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 patch | nsubj |
| 32 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 patch | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 kinder | advmod |
| 34 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 patch | amod |
| 35 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 patch | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 see | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see up | infinitive | Brer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | patch | can | ef dey | Brer | 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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