Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 30
One time Brer Wolf wuz comm' long home fum a fishin' frolic.
Who acts: long home, fishin · What happens: fum, frolic · To what, where: frolic
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 (long home, fishin), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comm | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wolf | compound |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 comm | compound |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comm | compound |
| 6 | comm | comm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 comm | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fum | nsubj |
| 10 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fishin | det |
| 12 | fishin | fishin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frolic | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 fishin | case |
| 14 | frolic | frolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fum | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fum | present | Wolf wuz comm One time's long home | a fishin's frolic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frolic | a fishin | nom frolic «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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