Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 40
Brer Wolf, he tuck Brer Rabbit at his word, en go off ter de pastur' en drive up de cattle en kill Brer Rabbit bes' cow.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: tuck, go off, drive up, word · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, word, ter
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), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuck | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tuck | nsubj |
| 5 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuck | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tuck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | conj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 tuck | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 go | compound:prt |
| 15 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ter | flat:foreign |
| 17 | pastur | pastur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ter | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pastur | conj |
| 20 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drive | compound:prt |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 drive | flat:foreign |
| 23 | cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kill | amod |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | compound |
| 25 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drive | parataxis |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | appos |
| 27 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | bes | be | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cow | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 bes | case |
| 30 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | infinitive | Brer | Brer Rabbit | Brer's word and en | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme at word=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go off | infinitive | ter and pastur and en | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive up | infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | word | Brer | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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