Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 3
Dey had a big day's work in front un um, en dey fotch der dinner wid um.
Who acts: Dey, big day · What happens: have, work · To what, where: work, front un um
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 (Dey, big day), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 day | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 um | case |
| 9 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 um | amod |
| 10 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fotch | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fotch | compound |
| 14 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fotch | compound |
| 15 | fotch | fotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | conj |
| 16 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 fotch | amod |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 um | compound |
| 18 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 um | amod |
| 19 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 der | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Dey | a big day's work and en dey fotch | front un um | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | |||
| 2 | work | a big day | front un um | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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