Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 15
De race wuz a five-mile heat, en de groun' wuz medjud off, en at de een' er eve'y mile a pos' wuz stuck up.
What happens: stick up · To what, where: mile wuz
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heat | det |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mile | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 five | punct |
| 7 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | compound |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | conj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 heat | conj |
| 12 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 medjud | punct |
| 14 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 medjud | compound |
| 15 | medjud | medjud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 groun | appos |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 en | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 medjud | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 een | case |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 een | compound |
| 21 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 en | nmod |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 een | punct |
| 23 | er | er | X | _ | 25 mile | compound |
| 24 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mile | compound |
| 25 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wuz | compound |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pos | det |
| 27 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wuz | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 pos | case |
| 29 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 een | conj |
| 30 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 wuz | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 stuck | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | participle | a pos's mile wuz not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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