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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

punctcompoundcompoundcompoundnsubjcasenmodobjxcompcaseoblflatpunctpunctparataxiscompoundnsubjpunctcasepunctcasedetamodparataxispunctnsubjconjdetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctdetapposobjdetamodnsubjacl:relclcaseamodoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTDEREPROPNwuzNOUNnudderNOUNmanNOUNdatADPsorterNOUNplayVERBitPRONsharpADJonADPBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBUnclePROPNRemusPROPN,PUNCTasADP,PUNCTbyADPsomeDETmysteriousADJprocessNOUN,PUNCThePRONtwistedVERBaDEThogNOUN'sPARTbristleNOUNintoADPtheDETendNOUNofADPaDETpieceNOUNofADPthreadNOUN--PUNCTanDEToperationNOUNwhichPRONtheDETlittleADJboyNOUNwatchedVERBwithADPgreatADJinterestNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 manpunct
2DEREDEREPROPNNumber=Sing3 wuzcompound
3wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing4 nuddercompound
4nuddernudderNOUNNumber=Sing5 mancompound
5manmanNOUNNumber=Sing8 playnsubj
6datdatADP_7 sortercase
7sortersorterNOUNNumber=Sing5 mannmod
8playplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
9ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 playobj
10sharpsharpADJDegree=Pos8 playxcomp
11ononADP_12 Brercase
12BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing16 saidobl
13RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing12 Brerflat
14,,PUNCT_12 Brerpunct
15""PUNCT_12 Brerpunct
16saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 playparataxis
17UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing18 Remuscompound
18RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing16 saidnsubj
19,,PUNCT_25 processpunct
20asasADP_25 processcase
21,,PUNCT_20 aspunct
22bybyADP_25 processcase
23somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 processdet
24mysteriousmysteriousADJDegree=Pos25 processamod
25processprocessNOUNNumber=Sing16 saidparataxis
26,,PUNCT_28 twistedpunct
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 twistednsubj
28twistedtwistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 saidconj
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 hogdet
30hoghogNOUNNumber=Sing32 bristlenmod:poss
31's'sPART_30 hogcase
32bristlebristleNOUNNumber=Sing28 twistedobj
33intointoADP_35 endcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 enddet
35endendNOUNNumber=Sing28 twistedobl
36ofofADP_38 piececase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 piecedet
38piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing35 endnmod
39ofofADP_40 threadcase
40threadthreadNOUNNumber=Sing38 piecenmod
41----PUNCT_43 operationpunct
42anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art43 operationdet
43operationoperationNOUNNumber=Sing35 endappos
44whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel48 watchedobj
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 boydet
46littlelittleADJDegree=Pos47 boyamod
47boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing48 watchednsubj
48watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 operationacl:relcl
49withwithADP_51 interestcase
50greatgreatADJDegree=Pos51 interestamod
51interestinterestNOUNNumber=Sing48 watchedobl
52..PUNCT_8 playpunct
53""PUNCT_8 playpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1play in a quotepresentnudder man dat sortersortersharp propertyvn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Eventuality
2say speech: assertpastUncle RemusBrervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3twistpastRemusa hog's bristleinto the end of a piece of threadvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bristle=Theme into end=Trajectory
4watchpastthe little boya operationwith great interestvn 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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