Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 7
Fus' news you know, w'ile dey wuz all wukkin' long, Brer Rabbit raise his head quick en fling his years forerd en holler out:
Who acts: you, news, quick en, years · What happens: know, raise, fl, forer out · To what, where: news, head, en holler
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 (you, news, quick en, years), 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 | Fus | Fus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 news | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fus | case |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raise | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 news | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wuz | punct |
| 7 | w'ile | w'ile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wuz | amod |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wuz | compound |
| 9 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wukkin | det |
| 11 | wukkin | wukkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 long | nsubj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wukkin | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rabbit | punct |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rabbit | compound |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 news | conj |
| 17 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raise | obj |
| 20 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 en | amod |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raise | obj |
| 22 | fling | fl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 en | acl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 years | nmod:poss |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 forerd | nsubj |
| 25 | forerd | forer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fling | ccomp |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holler | compound |
| 27 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forerd | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 forerd | compound:prt |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | Fus's news and w'ile dey wuz and Brer Rabbit not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | raise | present | Fus's news and w'ile dey wuz and Brer Rabbit | wukkin's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent head=Theme en=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fl | gerund | quick en not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forer out | past | wukkin's years | en holler | 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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