Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 33
Dar wuz de fishes, en dar wuz Brer Rabbit, en w'en dat de case w'at you speck a sorter innerpen'ent man like Brer Rabbit gwine do?
Who acts: you, wuz de fishes · What happens: speck, do · To what, where: sorter
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 (you, wuz de fishes), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fishes | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fishes | compound |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fishes | compound |
| 4 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wuz | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fishes | appos |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | appos |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dat | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 14 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | conj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 w'at | compound |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 w'at | compound |
| 17 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 speck | nsubj |
| 19 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sorter | det |
| 21 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 speck | obj |
| 22 | innerpen'ent | innerpen'ent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sorter | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 gwine | case |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rabbit | compound |
| 26 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 gwine | compound |
| 27 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | nmod |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fishes | acl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | present | you | a sorter and innerpen'ent man like Rabbit gwine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | wuz de fishes not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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