Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 1
"HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'en de creeturs wuz santer'n 'roun' same like fokes, none un um wuz brash nuff fer ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit," remarked Uncle Remus, reflectively.
Who acts: HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch · What happens: look, let on, nuff, wi, remark · To what, where: de udder night dat, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | HIT | HIT | PROPN | _ | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 5 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | dat | dat | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 let | compound:prt |
| 11 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 12 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 14 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 days | compound |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dat | nmod |
| 18 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 days | conj |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 w'en | flat |
| 20 | creeturs | creetur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 w'en | appos |
| 21 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 santer'n | compound |
| 22 | santer'n | santer'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creeturs | conj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 roun | punct |
| 24 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 santer'n | conj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 roun | punct |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 roun | amod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 fokes | case |
| 28 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 same | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nuff | punct |
| 30 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 31 un | compound |
| 31 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 um | compound |
| 32 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nuff | nsubj |
| 33 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nuff | compound |
| 34 | brash | brash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nuff | compound |
| 35 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fokes | nmod |
| 36 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 ketch | amod |
| 37 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ketch | compound |
| 38 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wid | nsubj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 ketch | compound:prt |
| 40 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 nuff | acl:relcl |
| 41 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 wid | obj |
| 42 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Brer | flat |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 remarked | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 remarked | punct |
| 45 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 Brer | acl |
| 46 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Remus | compound |
| 47 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 remarked | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 reflectively | punct |
| 49 | reflectively | reflectively | ADV | _ | 45 remarked | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | HIT | like Uncle Remus = remus | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let on in a quote | Uncle Remus = remus | de udder night dat | in dem days | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | nuff in a quote | un um | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wi in a quote | past | fer ter ketch | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | remark speech: assert | participle | Uncle Remus | Brer not said here | reflectively property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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