Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 54

*1 It may he interesting to note here that in all probability the word "skedaddle," about which there was some controversy during the war, came from the Virginia negro's use of "skaddle," which is a corruption of "scatter."

Who acts: skaddle, Virginia negro · What happens: note, be, come, use · To what, where: probability, use, corruption, skaddle

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 (skaddle, Virginia negro), 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	_	2 1	punct
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 interesting	discourse
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 interesting	expl
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 interesting	nsubj
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 came	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 note	mark
8	note	note	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 interesting	csubj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 note	advmod
10	that	that	ADV	_	8 note	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 probability	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 probability	det
13	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 note	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 probability	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 skedaddle	punct
17	skedaddle	skedaddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct
20	about	about	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 was	nsubj
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	advcl
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 controversy	det
25	controversy	controversy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
26	during	during	ADP	_	28 war	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 war	det
28	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 controversy	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	from	from	ADP	_	36 use	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 negro	det
33	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 negro	compound
34	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 use	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 negro	case
36	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 skaddle	case
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 skaddle	punct
39	skaddle	skaddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 use	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 skaddle	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 skaddle	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 corruption	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 corruption	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 corruption	det
45	corruption	corruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 skaddle	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 scatter	case
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 scatter	punct
48	scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 corruption	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 corruption	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 corruption	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	note	to-infinitive			all probability and the word; here	that property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past			the Virginia negro's use of skaddle and a corruption		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from use=Initial_Location
4	is a	present	skaddle and a corruption	a corruption		of scatter	tree rules
5	use		the Virginia negro	skaddle and a corruption			nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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