Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 60
"Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twining the leather thong around the little boy's neck, "en scamper up ter de big 'ouse en tell Miss Sally fer ter gin you some un it de nex' time she fine yo' tracks in de sugar-bar'l."
Who acts: you, ouse en, un, nex time · What happens: take, continue, twine, tell, nex, yo · To what, where: den, old man, leather thong, neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, ouse en, un, nex time), 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 den | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 den | advmod |
| 3 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honey | punct |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 den | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 den | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 w'ip | amod |
| 11 | w'ip | w'ip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dis | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 twining | punct |
| 19 | twining | twine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 continued | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thong | det |
| 21 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thong | compound |
| 22 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twining | obj |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 neck | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boy | amod |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 boy | case |
| 28 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twining | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 scamper | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 scamper | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scamper | compound |
| 32 | scamper | scamper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twining | obl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 scamper | compound:prt |
| 34 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 scamper | conj |
| 35 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 ter | flat:foreign |
| 36 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ter | amod |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 tell | punct |
| 38 | ouse | ouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 en | compound |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 tell | nsubj |
| 40 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 big | conj |
| 41 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 gin | compound |
| 42 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Miss | flat |
| 43 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ter | compound |
| 44 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gin | compound |
| 45 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 you | nmod:desc |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 tell | iobj |
| 47 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 un | det |
| 48 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 nex | nsubj |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 nex | nsubj |
| 50 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 51 nex | compound |
| 51 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 time | compound |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 nex | punct |
| 53 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 yo | nsubj |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 yo | nsubj |
| 55 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 yo | amod |
| 56 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tell | ccomp |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 56 yo | punct |
| 58 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 yo | conj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 63 bar'l | case |
| 60 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 bar'l | amod |
| 61 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 bar'l | compound |
| 62 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 sugar | punct |
| 63 | bar'l | bar'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 tracks | nmod |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | you | den and honey | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent dis=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the old man | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 3 | twine | gerund | the leather thong | the little boy's neck | en scamper obl | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thong=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | ouse en | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | nex in a quote | some un | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | yo in a quote | nex time | 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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