Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 28
"Co'se, honey, hit mout er bin ole Brer Wolf, er hit mout er bin er n'er Brer Wolf; it mout er bin 'fo' he got kotch up wid, er it mout er bin atterwards.
Who acts: Co'se, bin, Remus · What happens: hit, mout, get, kotch up, bin · To what, where: mout, wid
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Co'se, bin, Remus), 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 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | Co'se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 honey | punct |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | obj |
| 8 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ole | amod |
| 9 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ole | compound |
| 10 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mout | appos |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ole | appos |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hit | punct |
| 14 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 15 hit | cc |
| 15 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hit | advcl |
| 16 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hit | obj |
| 17 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bin | amod |
| 18 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hit | obj |
| 19 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 hit | advmod |
| 20 | n'er | n'er | ADP | _ | 22 Wolf | case |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Wolf | compound |
| 22 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 er | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 mout | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mout | nsubj |
| 25 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | obl |
| 26 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bin | amod |
| 27 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mout | appos |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 29 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 32 got | mark |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bin | conj |
| 33 | kotch | kotch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 kotch | compound:prt |
| 35 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kotch | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 er | punct |
| 37 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 41 bin | discourse |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 bin | nsubj |
| 39 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bin | compound |
| 40 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bin | amod |
| 41 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kotch | obl |
| 42 | atterwards | atterwards | ADV | _ | 41 bin | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | infinitive | Co'se and honey | mout | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mout=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | Co'se and honey not said here | mout | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent mout=Patient bin=Result | ||||
| 3 | mout in a quote | bin | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | Remus | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | kotch up in a quote | infinitive | Remus not said here | wid | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bin in a quote | bin | atterwards 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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