Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 16
Brer Rabbit wuz ter run down de big road, en Brer Tarrypin, he say he'd gallup thoo de woods.
Who acts: Brer wuz ter, ter · What happens: run down, say · To what, where: big road · 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 (Brer wuz ter, ter), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | compound |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | de | de | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 road | conj |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 en | appos |
| 13 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 'd | nsubj |
| 18 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | ccomp |
| 19 | gallup | Gallup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 'd | obj |
| 20 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 woods | compound |
| 21 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 woods | compound |
| 22 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 'd | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | present | Brer wuz ter | big road and en | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | ter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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