Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 65
"Den de little bird he up'n hop on Brer Fox's tail.
Who acts: bird · What happens: hop · To what, where: Den little bird, tail
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 (bird), 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 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | compound |
| 3 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hop | nsubj |
| 7 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 8 hop | cc |
| 8 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bird | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Fox | case |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hop | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop in a quote | infinitive | bird | Den little bird not said here | Brer Fox's tail | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/22/65/