Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 51
"W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'.
Who acts: W'en ole, ole, tail · What happens: get, come, keep, fum · To what, where: dar, wuz Rabbit hol'in, tail, de cow tail, gwine, de groun
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 (W'en ole, ole, tail), 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 | _ | 3 ole | punct |
| 2 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | appos |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 w'ich | punct |
| 9 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dar | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | parataxis |
| 12 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 hol'in | advmod |
| 13 | scootin | scootin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wuz | compound |
| 14 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 13 scootin | dep |
| 15 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wuz | compound |
| 16 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hol'in | compound |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hol'in | compound |
| 19 | hol'in | hol'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 hol'in | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 tail | case |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tail | nsubj |
| 23 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tail | amod |
| 24 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tail | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 cow | punct |
| 26 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ter | punct |
| 28 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ter | compound |
| 29 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tail | conj |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 keep | obj |
| 32 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 keep | xcomp |
| 33 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fum | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 groun | case |
| 35 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 groun | amod |
| 36 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fum | obl |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 groun | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | W'en ole | dar and w'ich | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | ole | wuz Rabbit hol'in | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | ole not said here | tail | de cow tail and fer ter | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fum in a quote | infinitive | tail not said here | gwine | de groun | tree rules |
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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