Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 5
"One day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lippity-clippitin' down de road, he meet up wid ole Brer Tarrypin, en atter dey pass de time er day wid wunner nudder, Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he wuz much 'blije ter Brer Tarrypin fer de han' he tuck in de rumpus dat day down at Miss Meadows's."
Who acts: wuz, wid ole Brer, Brer · What happens: meet up, pass, wuz, tuck · To what, where: atter dey, low dat
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 (wuz, wid ole Brer, Brer), 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 | _ | 11 clippitin | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clippitin | nsubj |
| 4 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | flat |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wuz | compound |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clippitin | nsubj |
| 8 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clippitin | amod |
| 9 | lippity | lippity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clippitin | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lippity | punct |
| 11 | clippitin | clippitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 clippitin | punct |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 road | advmod |
| 14 | de | de | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clippitin | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meet | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | nsubj |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 clippitin | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 meet | compound:prt |
| 20 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Brer | amod |
| 21 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Brer | amod |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | nsubj |
| 23 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dey | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 atter | compound |
| 26 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dey | compound |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | obl |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 meet | conj |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 time | compound |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | obj |
| 31 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 35 nudder | cc |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nudder | compound |
| 33 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 nudder | amod |
| 34 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nudder | compound |
| 35 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Brer | punct |
| 37 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 nudder | appos |
| 38 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Brer | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wuz | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 wuz | nsubj |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 wuz | punct |
| 42 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dat | amod |
| 43 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wuz | obl |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 wuz | nsubj |
| 45 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pass | parataxis |
| 46 | much | much | ADV | _ | 45 wuz | advmod |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 blije | punct |
| 48 | blije | blije | X | Foreign=Yes | 45 wuz | dep |
| 49 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 54 han | case |
| 50 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 han | nsubj |
| 51 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Brer | flat |
| 52 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 han | compound |
| 53 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 han | compound |
| 54 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 blije | nmod |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 54 han | punct |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 tuck | nsubj |
| 57 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 han | conj |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 day | case |
| 59 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 day | amod |
| 60 | rumpus | rumpus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 dat | compound |
| 61 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 day | compound |
| 62 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 tuck | nmod |
| 63 | down | down | ADV | _ | 62 day | advmod |
| 64 | at | at | ADP | _ | 66 Meadows | case |
| 65 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 Meadows | compound |
| 66 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 day | nmod |
| 67 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 66 Meadows | case |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clippitin | punct |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 clippitin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet up in a quote | present | wuz | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | present | wid ole Brer | atter dey | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wuz in a quote | present | Brer | low dat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tuck in a quote | Brer | day | 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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