Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 60
"Ole Brer Possum, he tuck a runnin' start, he did, en he come lumberin' 'long, en he lit--kerblam!--right in de middle er de fier, en dat wuz de las' er ole Brer Possum."
Who acts: Possum, en, runnin · What happens: tuck, do, come, light, start · To what, where: start, lumberin, en
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 (Possum, en, runnin), 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 Possum | punct |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Possum | compound |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Possum | compound |
| 4 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tuck | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tuck | nsubj |
| 7 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Possum | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 runnin | det |
| 9 | runnin | runnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 start | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 runnin | case |
| 11 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tuck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tuck | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tuck | conj |
| 19 | lumberin | lumberin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lumberin | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lumberin | punct |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 come | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 en | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tuck | parataxis |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lit | nsubj |
| 26 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 en | acl:relcl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 kerblam | punct |
| 28 | kerblam | kerblam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 en | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 en | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 er | punct |
| 31 | right | right | ADV | _ | 35 er | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 er | case |
| 33 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 34 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 35 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tuck | parataxis |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 fier | compound |
| 37 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 en | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wuz | compound |
| 40 | dat | dat | X | _ | 41 wuz | compound |
| 41 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | conj |
| 42 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 wuz | conj |
| 43 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 Possum | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 43 las | case |
| 45 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 ole | advmod |
| 46 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Possum | amod |
| 47 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Possum | compound |
| 48 | Possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 de | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Possum | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Possum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck in a quote | infinitive | Possum | a runnin's start | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Possum | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | en | lumberin | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lumberin=Theme | |||
| 4 | light in a quote | past | Possum | en and kerblam not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product | ||||
| 5 | start in a quote | a runnin | nom start «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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