Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 20

Ole Brer Tarrypin, he lay low in de swamp.

Who acts: Ole · What happens: lie · To what, where: de swamp

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 (Ole), 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	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	flat
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ole	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lay	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 swamp	case
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swamp	amod
10	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Ole			de swamp		low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in swamp=Location

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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