Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 38
"Dis kinder tarrify Brer Rabbit, en he skasely know w'at he gwine do; but bimeby he study ter hisse'f dat de man w'at see Brer Fox fus wuz boun' ter have de inturn, en den he go hoppin' off to'rds home.
Who acts: Dis, w'at gwine, ter · What happens: tarrify, know, gwine, do, study, see · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, en, ter hisse'f, Brer Fox, de inturn, hoppin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis, w'at gwine, ter), 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 | _ | 4 tarrify | punct |
| 2 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarrify | nsubj |
| 3 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Dis | amod |
| 4 | tarrify | tarrify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tarrify | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarrify | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | skasely | skasely | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gwine | compound |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gwine | nsubj |
| 14 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gwine | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 study | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 study | cc |
| 18 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 study | compound |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 study | nsubj |
| 20 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarrify | parataxis |
| 21 | ter | ter | X | _ | 22 hisse'f | compound |
| 22 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 study | obj |
| 23 | dat | dat | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 w'at | amod |
| 24 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 dat | flat |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 w'at | compound |
| 26 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 study | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 study | conj |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Fox | compound |
| 29 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 boun | amod |
| 31 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 boun | compound |
| 32 | boun | boun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Fox | appos |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 34 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 have | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 boun | parataxis |
| 36 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 inturn | amod |
| 37 | inturn | inturn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 den | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 den | compound |
| 40 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 inturn | conj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 go | nsubj |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | conj |
| 43 | hoppin | hoppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 go | obj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 hoppin | punct |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 go | compound:prt |
| 46 | to'rds | to'rd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 go | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | home | home | ADV | _ | 42 go | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tarrify | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarrify in a quote | infinitive | Dis | Brer Rabbit | en obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | dis | en not said here | skasely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | gwine in a quote | dis | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | w'at gwine not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | study in a quote | present | dis | ter hisse'f | dat man w'at obl:unmarked | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Topic | |||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | dis not said here | Brer Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | ter | de inturn and en den | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inturn=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go off in a quote | present | dis | hoppin | to'rds obl:unmarked; home property | 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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