Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 16
"Brer Buzzard, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but he keep up a monstus thinkin', en one day he come 'long en holler en tell Brer Rabbit dat he done fine rich gol'-mine des 'cross de river.
Who acts: Brer, long en holler en, Brer Rabbit dat · What happens: keep up, come, tell, do, cross · To what, where: thinkin en, fine rich gol · 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 (Brer, long en holler en, Brer Rabbit dat), 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 | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ai | obl |
| 3 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ai | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ai | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sayin | advmod |
| 8 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ai | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 nuthin | punct |
| 10 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sayin | appos |
| 11 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 10 nuthin | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ai | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 keep | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thinkin | det |
| 17 | monstus | monstus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinkin | compound |
| 18 | thinkin | thinkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 19 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 18 thinkin | dep |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 day | nummod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | parataxis |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 tell | punct |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 en | amod |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 28 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | advcl |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dat | compound |
| 32 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dat | compound |
| 33 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 done | nsubj |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tell | ccomp |
| 36 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gol | amod |
| 37 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gol | amod |
| 38 | gol | gol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | obj |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 gol | punct |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 cross | punct |
| 41 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 cross | nsubj |
| 42 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cross | compound |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 cross | punct |
| 44 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gol | conj |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 river | compound |
| 46 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cross | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up in a quote | infinitive | Brer | thinkin en | day | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | Brer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | long en holler en | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | Brer Rabbit dat | fine rich gol and des cross | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gol=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cross in a quote | long en holler en = 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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