Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 46
Atter he gone en done all dis, den Brer Rabbit he squall out fer Brer Wolf:
Who acts: gone en, Atter Brer Rabbit · What happens: do, squall out · To what, where: dis, fer
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 (gone en, Atter Brer Rabbit), 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 | Atter | Atter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Atter | flat |
| 3 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 en | amod |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Atter | appos |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 en | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dis | det |
| 7 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 den | punct |
| 9 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Atter | conj |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 squall | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 squall | nsubj |
| 13 | squall | squall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 squall | compound:prt |
| 15 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squall | obj |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fer | appos |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 squall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | gone en not said here | all dis | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | squall out speech: other | infinitive | Atter Brer Rabbit | fer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Topic |
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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