Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 36
"Brer Rabbit so glad he's ahead dat he put out harder dan ever, en de Tarrypin, he make fer home.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit, Rabbit · What happens: be, put out, make · To what, where: glad dat, harder dan, fer home
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 Rabbit, Rabbit), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dat | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dat | amod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dat | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dat | cop |
| 8 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 9 dat | advmod |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 dan | amod |
| 14 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 put | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dat | conj |
| 18 | de | de | ADP | _ | 19 Tarrypin | case |
| 19 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 en | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dat | conj |
| 23 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 home | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit | glad dat and en de Tarrypin | ahead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put out in a quote | past | Rabbit | harder dan | ever | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dan=Goal | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | Rabbit | fer home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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