Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 31
"Brer Fox en Brer Possum rustle roun', dey did, gittin out de vittles, en bimeby Brer Fox, he say, sezee:
Who acts: Fox en, roun dey, de · What happens: rustle, do, gittin out, vittle, say · To what, where: en bimeby, sezee · 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 (Fox en, roun dey, de), 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 | _ | 4 en | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 en | compound |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rustle | nsubj |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 en | appos |
| 6 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | rustle | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | compound |
| 9 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 8 roun | dep |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rustle | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gittin | punct |
| 13 | gittin | gittin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rustle | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 gittin | compound:prt |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vittles | nsubj |
| 16 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gittin | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bimeby | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bimeby | compound |
| 19 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vittles | obj |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bimeby | appos |
| 21 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 say | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rustle | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sezee | punct |
| 26 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 say | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 rustle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle in a quote | present | Fox en | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | roun dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gittin out in a quote | infinitive | Fox en not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | vittle in a quote | present | de | en bimeby | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | de | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
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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