Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 44
"Soon's Brer Wolf hear talk er de patter-rollers, he scramble off inter de underbrush like he bin shot out'n a gun.
Who acts: en · What happens: scramble off, shoot · To what, where: inter de underbrush
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 (en), 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 | _ | 7 talk | punct |
| 2 | Soon | Soon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Soon | case |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | compound |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talk | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 talk | amod |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 talk | advmod |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 rollers | advmod |
| 10 | patter | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rollers | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 patter | punct |
| 12 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 er | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scramble | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 scramble | nsubj |
| 15 | scramble | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talk | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 scramble | compound:prt |
| 17 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 underbrush | compound |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 underbrush | amod |
| 19 | underbrush | underbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scramble | obj |
| 20 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 shot | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shot | nsubj |
| 22 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shot | nsubj |
| 23 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 scramble | advcl |
| 24 | out'n | out'n | CCONJ | _ | 26 gun | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 gun | det |
| 26 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shot | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble off in a quote | present | en | inter de underbrush | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location underbrush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot in a quote | past | en | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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