Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 12
Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he got a fifty-dollar bill in de chink er de chimbly at home, en dat bill done tole 'im dat he could beat Brer Rabbit in a fa'r race.
Who acts: en, you, Brer, en dat bill · What happens: have, know, say, get, do, beat · To what, where: kin, twel fus news, dollar bill, de chink er, tole, Brer Rabbit · 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 (en, you, Brer, en dat bill), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 en | advmod |
| 2 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 dey | case |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 en | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 news | punct |
| 8 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 news | compound |
| 9 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 news | amod |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 news | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 news | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bill | det |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 dollar | nummod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fifty | punct |
| 21 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bill | compound |
| 22 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 er | case |
| 24 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 er | amod |
| 25 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 er | compound |
| 26 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bill | nmod |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 er | conj |
| 28 | chimbly | chimbly | ADV | _ | 30 home | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 de | flat:foreign |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bill | punct |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bill | compound |
| 33 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bill | compound |
| 34 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 er | conj |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 bill | acl |
| 36 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | obj |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 beat | punct |
| 38 | im | im | ADP | _ | 39 dat | case |
| 39 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 beat | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 beat | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 beat | aux |
| 42 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 done | advcl |
| 43 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Rabbit | compound |
| 44 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 beat | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 race | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 race | det |
| 47 | fa'r | fa'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 race | compound |
| 48 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 beat | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | en down dey | kin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | twel fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | Brer | a dollar bill | de chink er and en dat bill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | do | participle | en dat bill not said here | tole | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tole=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | beat | could | Brer | Brer Rabbit | im dat; in a fa'r race | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient in race=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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