Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 46
He look 'roun' en he don't see Brer Tarrypin, en den he squall out:
Who acts: fus, roun · What happens: look, not see, squall out · To what, where: Brer, en den
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 (fus, roun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roun | punct |
| 4 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roun | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roun | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 look | ccomp |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 den | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 den | compound |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 squall | nsubj |
| 17 | squall | squall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 15 den | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 squall | compound:prt |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | fus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | present · do-support | roun and en | Brer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | squall out speech: other | present | fus | en den not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Topic |
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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