Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 27
W'en de time come Jedge Buzzard strut 'roun' en pull out his watch, en holler out:
Who acts: W'en time · What happens: come, pull out · To what, where: Jedge strut, watch
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 (W'en time), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 W'en | flat:foreign |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Jedge | Jedge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 strut | compound |
| 6 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jedge | flat |
| 7 | strut | strut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 roun | punct |
| 9 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strut | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 roun | punct |
| 11 | en | en | PART | _ | 12 pull | mark |
| 12 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pull | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 watch | nmod:poss |
| 15 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 holler | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holler | compound |
| 18 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pull | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | W'en time | Jedge strut | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull out | infinitive | W'en time not said here | de's watch and en holler | tree rules |
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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