Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 54
"'Dar! de tail done pull out en de cow gone,' sezee.
Who acts: Dar tail · What happens: do, pull out · To what, where: Dar tail, en
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 (Dar 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 | _ | 6 tail | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dar | punct |
| 3 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tail | compound |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dar | punct |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 Dar | flat |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | nsubj |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tail | acl |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pull | compound:prt |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | obj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 cow | compound |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | obj |
| 13 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pull | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | Dar tail not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull out in a quote | infinitive | Dar tail | en | 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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