Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 42
Brer Wolf, he bin tuck up by de patter-rollers 'fo' now, en he mighty skeer'd un um, en fus news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit hollerin' en tellin' Brer Wolf dat de patter-rollers comin'.
Who acts: Brer, you, yer · What happens: bin, tuck up, know, come · To what, where: Brer, fus news, Rabbit hollerin
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, you, yer), 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 | 28 news | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bin | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bin | nsubj |
| 5 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brer | acl:relcl |
| 6 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bin | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 tuck | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fo | case |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 fo | nsubj |
| 10 | patter | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rollers | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 patter | punct |
| 12 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fo | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 rollers | case |
| 14 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tuck | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 fo | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 tuck | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 news | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 news | nsubj |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 skeer | amod |
| 21 | skeer | skeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 um | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 21 skeer | case |
| 23 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 um | compound |
| 24 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 news | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 en | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 um | conj |
| 27 | fus | fus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 news | compound |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 know | nsubj |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 news | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 news | conj |
| 34 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Rabbit | compound |
| 35 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hollerin | compound |
| 36 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obj |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 tellin | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tellin | compound |
| 39 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hollerin | conj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 dat | punct |
| 41 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 dat | compound |
| 42 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 dat | compound |
| 43 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tellin | appos |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 dat | flat:foreign |
| 45 | patter | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rollers | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 patter | punct |
| 47 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 comin | compound |
| 48 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dat | conj |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 comin | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 news | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | Brer | Brer not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tuck up | infinitive | Brer not said here | now | by patter rollers's fo | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by fo=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | present | yer | Rabbit hollerin and en tellin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hollerin=Theme |
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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