Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 14
"Enny how dey make de bet en put up de money, en old Brer Tukkey Buzzard, he wuz summonzd fer ter be de jedge, en de stakeholder; en 'twan't long 'fo' all de 'rangements wuz made.
Who acts: dey, Enny, en, Brer, fer ter, rangements · What happens: make, bet, put up, summonz, be, wuz · To what, where: Enny, en, de money, de jedge · 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 (dey, Enny, en, Brer), 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 | _ | 2 Enny | punct |
| 2 | Enny | Enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 make | advmod |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 make | xcomp |
| 7 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bet | obj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 en | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 money | compound |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 money | conj |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Brer | amod |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 en | nmod |
| 17 | Tukkey | Tukkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 summonzd | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 summonzd | nsubj |
| 21 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 summonzd | nsubj |
| 22 | summonzd | summonz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | conj |
| 23 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 ter | amod |
| 24 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jedge | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 jedge | cop |
| 26 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 jedge | amod |
| 27 | jedge | jedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 summonzd | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 en | punct |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jedge | conj |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 stakeholder | compound |
| 31 | stakeholder | stakeholder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 twa | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 twa | compound |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 twa | punct |
| 35 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | parataxis |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 long | advmod |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 twa | advmod |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 long | punct |
| 39 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 45 wuz | mark |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 wuz | punct |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 rangements | det |
| 42 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 all | flat:foreign |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 rangements | punct |
| 44 | rangements | rangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wuz | nsubj |
| 45 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 twa | advcl |
| 46 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 wuz | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | dey | Enny | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bet in a quote | infinitive | Enny not said here | en | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent en=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put up in a quote | participle | en not said here | de money and en old Brer | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | summonz in a quote | past | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | fer ter | de jedge and en and de stakeholder | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wuz in a quote | present | all rangements | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | participle | all rangements not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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