Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 23

He scrape it clean en lick it dry, en den he go back ter wuk lookin' mo' samer dan a nigger w'at de patter-rollers bin had holt un.

Who acts: Dreckly, clean en, dan, bin · What happens: scrape, lick, go back, w'at, have · To what, where: hisse'f, en den, holt un

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 (Dreckly, clean en, dan, bin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scrape	nsubj
2	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scrape	obj
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 en	amod
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lick	nsubj
6	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scrape	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lick	obj
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lick	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 den	punct
10	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 den	amod
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scrape	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	11 den	acl:relcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	ter	ter	ADP	_	17 lookin	case
16	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lookin	compound
17	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scrape	obl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 mo	punct
19	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lookin	appos
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 mo	punct
21	samer	sam	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 w'at	amod
22	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	25 w'at	nsubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 w'at	det
24	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 w'at	compound
25	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lookin	conj
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 w'at	flat
27	patter	patter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rollers	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 patter	punct
29	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 w'at	conj
30	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 w'at	parataxis
32	holt	holt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 un	compound
33	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scrape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scrape	infinitive	Dreckly	hisse'f	ter wuk lookin and a samer nigger w'at and patter rollers; en den obl	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	lick	present	clean en	hisse'f	dry property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go back	present	Dreckly	en den not said here		tree rules
4	w'at		dan			tree rules
5	have	past	bin	holt un		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent un=Patient

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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