Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 5
Dat butter er Brer Fox sot heavy on his mine, en his mouf water eve'y time he 'member 'bout it.
Who acts: eve'y time · What happens: member
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 (eve'y time), 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 | Dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 butter | compound |
| 2 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 er | compound |
| 3 | er | er | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sot | compound |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sot | compound |
| 6 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 er | conj |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sot | amod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mine | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mine | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heavy | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 er | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | compound |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eve'y | compound |
| 16 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 member | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 member | nsubj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 member | punct |
| 20 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 er | flat |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 member | punct |
| 22 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 er | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member | dey's eve'y time | 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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