Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 32
W'en Brer Rabbit got ter de fus' mile-pos' wunner de Tarrypin chilluns crawl out de woods, he did, en make fer de place.
Who acts: W'en, Tarrypin chilluns, en · What happens: get, crawl out, do, make · To what, where: ter, fer
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, Tarrypin chilluns, en), 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 | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 ter | flat:foreign |
| 7 | fus | fu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pos | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 fus | case |
| 9 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pos | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mile | punct |
| 11 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wunner | punct |
| 13 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pos | conj |
| 14 | de | de | ADP | _ | 17 crawl | mark |
| 15 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chilluns | compound |
| 16 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crawl | nsubj |
| 17 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pos | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 crawl | compound:prt |
| 19 | de | de | ADP | _ | 20 woods | case |
| 20 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crawl | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | nsubj |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 did | ccomp |
| 27 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 place | amod |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | W'en | ter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | crawl out | present | Tarrypin chilluns | de woods | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | W'en | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | present | en | fer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fer=Product |
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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