Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 26
"Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Brer Rabbit keep on lookin' lonesome, en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey sorter rustle roun' fer ter see ef dey can't make Brer Rabbit feel sorter splimmy."
Who acts: Bimeby, der, Brer Rabbit, dey sorter, ef dey, Brer · What happens: get out, vittle, keep, rustle, see, not make · To what, where: lonesome, roun fer ter, sorter splimmy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bimeby, der, Brer Rabbit, dey sorter), 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 | _ | 2 Bimeby | punct |
| 2 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 4 | w'en | w'en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 come | amod |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dinner | punct |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | compound |
| 8 | come | come | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dey | punct |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | appos |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vittles | nsubj |
| 15 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 keep | cc |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | compound |
| 19 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 lonesome | case |
| 22 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lonesome | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 lookin | case |
| 24 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 en | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lonesome | conj |
| 27 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 28 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lonesome | conj |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 en | appos |
| 31 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 32 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sorter | compound |
| 33 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rustle | nsubj |
| 34 | rustle | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 en | parataxis |
| 35 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ter | compound |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 roun | punct |
| 37 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ter | compound |
| 38 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rustle | obj |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 rustle | conj |
| 40 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dey | compound |
| 41 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | nsubj |
| 42 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 make | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 make | advmod |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 see | ccomp |
| 45 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 feel | nsubj |
| 46 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Brer | flat |
| 47 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 make | xcomp |
| 48 | sorter | sorter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 splimmy | amod |
| 49 | splimmy | splimmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 feel | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out in a quote | past | Bimeby | all property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | vittle in a quote | present | der | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit | lookin's lonesome and en and Brer Fox en | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on lonesome=Location | ||||
| 4 | rustle in a quote | present | dey sorter | roun fer ter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | dey sorter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not make in a quote | can | ef dey | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not feel in a quote | present | Brer | sorter splimmy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splimmy=Theme |
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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