Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 1
"DERE wuz nudder man dat sorter play it sharp on Brer Rabbit," said Uncle Remus, as, by some mysterious process, he twisted a hog's bristle into the end of a piece of thread--an operation which the little boy watched with great interest. "
Who acts: nudder man, Uncle Remus, Remus, little boy · What happens: play, say, twist, watch · To what, where: sorter, Brer, bristle, end, operation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nudder man, Uncle Remus, Remus, little boy), 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 | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | DERE | DERE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nudder | compound |
| 4 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | nsubj |
| 6 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 7 sorter | case |
| 7 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 play | obj |
| 10 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 play | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Brer | case |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brer | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brer | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | parataxis |
| 17 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Remus | compound |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 process | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 process | case |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 as | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 process | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 process | det |
| 24 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 process | amod |
| 25 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 twisted | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 twisted | nsubj |
| 28 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hog | det |
| 30 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bristle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 hog | case |
| 32 | bristle | bristle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 twisted | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 end | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 twisted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 piece | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 piece | det |
| 38 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 end | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 thread | case |
| 40 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 piece | nmod |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 operation | punct |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 operation | det |
| 43 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 end | appos |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 watched | obj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 boy | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 boy | amod |
| 47 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 watched | nsubj |
| 48 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 operation | acl:relcl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 interest | case |
| 50 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 interest | amod |
| 51 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 watched | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 play | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present | nudder man dat sorter | sorter | sharp property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | twist | past | Remus | a hog's bristle | into the end of a piece of thread | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bristle=Theme into end=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | watch | past | the little boy | a operation | with great interest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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