Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 13
Den Brer Rabbit say he got a fifty-dollar bill w'at say dat he kin leave Brer Tarrypin so fur behime, dat he could sow barley ez he went long en hit 'ud be ripe nuff fer ter cut by de time Brer Tarrypin pass dat way.
Who acts: Den, dollar bill w'at, dat, fur behime, barley · What happens: say, get, leave, sow, go, be · To what, where: Brer, long en hit, ripe nuff fer ter, way · 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 (Den, dollar bill w'at, dat, fur behime), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 w'at | det |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dollar | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fifty | punct |
| 10 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 w'at | compound |
| 11 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 w'at | compound |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | ccomp |
| 14 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 16 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | aux |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dat | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | flat |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 sow | advmod |
| 21 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 behime | compound |
| 22 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sow | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dat | punct |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 behime | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sow | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sow | aux |
| 27 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | advcl |
| 28 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | nsubj |
| 29 | ez | ez | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 barley | nmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 ter | parataxis |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hit | amod |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hit | compound |
| 34 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 ud | punct |
| 36 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hit | conj |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ter | cop |
| 38 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ter | amod |
| 39 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ter | compound |
| 40 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ter | compound |
| 41 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sow | obl |
| 42 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 ter | acl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 time | case |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 45 time | compound |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cut | obl |
| 46 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 time | appos |
| 47 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Brer | flat |
| 48 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 49 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 way | det |
| 50 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pass | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Den | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | past | den | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | a dollar bill w'at | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave | dat | Brer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sow | could | fur behime and dat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past | barley ez | long en hit and ud | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hit=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | infinitive | ripe nuff fer ter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | cut | participle | ripe nuff fer ter not said here | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | pass | present | dat | that way | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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