Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 31
He s'anter long de road, he did, wid his string er fish 'cross his shoulder, w'en fus' news you know ole Miss Pa'tridge, she hop outer de bushes en flutter long right at Brer Wolf nose.
Who acts: home, er fish, you, fish · What happens: do, wi, cross, know, hop, flutter · To what, where: shoulder, ole Miss, bushes en, Wolf nose
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 (home, er fish, you, fish), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 long | nsubj |
| 2 | s'anter | s'anter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 road | compound |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wid | punct |
| 10 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fish | nmod:poss |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | compound |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fish | compound |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | nsubj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cross | punct |
| 16 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wid | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fus | punct |
| 20 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fus | compound |
| 21 | fus | fus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | obl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fus | punct |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fus | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 news | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Miss | amod |
| 27 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 know | obj |
| 28 | Pa'tridge | Pa'tridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Miss | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hop | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hop | nsubj |
| 31 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | parataxis |
| 32 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bushes | amod |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 outer | flat:foreign |
| 34 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 en | compound |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hop | obj |
| 36 | flutter | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 31 hop | conj |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 right | advmod |
| 38 | right | right | ADV | _ | 42 nose | advmod |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 nose | case |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Wolf | compound |
| 41 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 nose | compound |
| 42 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flutter | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | home | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wi | past | home not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cross | infinitive | home's er fish | home's shoulder | w'en fus and news obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | |||
| 4 | know | present | you | ole Miss | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer miss=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hop | present | fish | bushes en | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | flutter | present | fish not said here | Wolf nose | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nose=Location |
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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