Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 56
Eve'y time ole Brer Wolf stuck de pick-axe in de clay, Brer Rabbit, he giggle ter his chilluns:
Who acts: Eve'y time ole, ole · What happens: stick, giggle · To what, where: pick axe, de clay
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 (Eve'y time ole, ole), 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 | Eve'y | eve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ole | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 axe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 axe | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pick | punct |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 clay | case |
| 12 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clay | compound |
| 13 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brer | punct |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 clay | appos |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 giggle | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 giggle | nsubj |
| 19 | giggle | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | conj |
| 20 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 22 chilluns | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 giggle | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | Eve'y time ole | de's pick axe | de clay | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in clay=Destination | |||
| 2 | giggle | present | ole | ter ole's chilluns | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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