Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 52
Brer Wolf, he kotch holt, en dey 'gin a pull er two en up come de tail.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: holt, come · To what, where: tail
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), 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 | 18 come | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 holt | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 holt | nsubj |
| 5 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holt | compound |
| 6 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dey | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dey | compound |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 gin | punct |
| 11 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dey | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 en | det |
| 13 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | compound |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | compound |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 er | flat |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 en | compound:prt |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | de | de | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holt | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | present | Brer and a er en | tail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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