Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 35
"Brer Wolf, he sot down en scratch his head, he did, en study en study, en den hit sorter rush inter his mine dat Brer Rabbit bin 'long dar, en den Brer Wolf, he put out fer Brer Rabbit house, en w'en he git dar he hail 'im.
Who acts: Brer, en den, Brer Wolf, study en study, w'en · What happens: sot, scratch, do, hit, rush, dat · To what, where: head, sorter, inter, Brer Rabbit bin, fer Rabbit house
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 (Brer, en den, Brer Wolf, study en study), 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 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 scratch | nsubj |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sot | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sot | nsubj |
| 6 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | appos |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 en | case |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sot | nmod |
| 9 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scratch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scratch | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scratch | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 study | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 study | compound |
| 17 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 study | compound |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 study | compound |
| 19 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dar | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hit | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 den | compound |
| 22 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | nsubj |
| 23 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 study | acl:relcl |
| 24 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | obj |
| 25 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hit | xcomp |
| 26 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rush | obj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rush | obj |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dat | nsubj |
| 29 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 his | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bin | compound |
| 31 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bin | compound |
| 32 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dat | obj |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 dar | punct |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dar | amod |
| 35 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bin | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 den | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 den | compound |
| 38 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dar | conj |
| 39 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 den | appos |
| 40 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Brer | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 put | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | nsubj |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hit | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 put | compound:prt |
| 45 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 house | compound |
| 46 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Rabbit | compound |
| 47 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 house | compound |
| 48 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 put | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 w'en | punct |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 w'en | compound |
| 51 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dar | nsubj |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 dar | nsubj |
| 53 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dar | compound |
| 54 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scratch | parataxis |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 hail | nsubj |
| 56 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dar | appos |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 58 im | punct |
| 58 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 hail | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sot in a quote | Brer | down en | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scratch in a quote | present | Brer | Brer's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Brer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | past | en den | sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rush in a quote | infinitive | en den not said here | inter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dat in a quote | past | Brer Wolf = wolf | Brer Rabbit bin | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | put out in a quote | past | Brer | fer Rabbit house | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent house=Goal | ||||
| 8 | dar in a quote | study en study | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | hail in a quote | w'en | 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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