Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 45
En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun'.
Who acts: En, de, cow en salt · What happens: wa', whirl, salt, hide down, tuck'n, cut up · To what, where: en skunt, den tuck'n, mo'n, de, de ouse
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, de, cow en salt), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wa' | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wa' | nsubj |
| 3 | wa' | wa' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 gone | advmod |
| 5 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wa' | ccomp |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 8 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 Rabbit | case |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rabbit | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whirl | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 whirl | nsubj |
| 14 | whirl | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 stow | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 skunt | case |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skunt | compound |
| 17 | skunt | skunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whirl | obl |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 salt | nsubj |
| 19 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 salt | compound |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 salt | compound |
| 21 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skunt | nmod |
| 22 | de | de | PART | _ | 23 hide | mark |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 salt | acl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 hide | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tuck'n | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 den | compound |
| 27 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tuck'n | compound |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tuck'n | nsubj |
| 29 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 salt | conj |
| 30 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 tuck'n | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 cut | compound:prt |
| 32 | de | de | ADP | _ | 34 en | case |
| 33 | kyarkiss | kyarkiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 en | compound |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cut | obl |
| 35 | stow | stow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wa' | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stow | obj |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 way | punct |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stow | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 ouse | case |
| 40 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ouse | amod |
| 41 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ouse | nsubj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 ouse | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 ouse | punct |
| 44 | ouse | ouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 stick | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 den | punct |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 den | compound |
| 47 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ouse | conj |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 stick | nsubj |
| 49 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 50 stick | cc |
| 50 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 stow | conj |
| 51 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 50 stick | obj |
| 52 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 er | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 52 een | case |
| 54 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 tail | compound |
| 55 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 54 er | flat:foreign |
| 56 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 tail | compound |
| 57 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 cow | punct |
| 58 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 stick | conj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 groun | case |
| 60 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 groun | amod |
| 61 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 stick | obl |
| 62 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 groun | punct |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wa' | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wa' | past | En | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whirl | present | en | en skunt | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in skunt=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | salt | de | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hide down | infinitive | cow en salt and den tuck'n not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tuck'n | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | cut up | participle | den tuck'n not said here | de kyarkiss en | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | stow | infinitive | mo'n | way obl | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stick | infinitive | en | de | de ouse and en den | in de groun | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent de=Theme in ouse=Destination |
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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