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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 20

Den he up'n ax Brer Buzzard how he gwine do, en Brer Buzzard he up'n say dat he kyar Brer Rabbit 'cross, en wid dat ole Brer Buzzard, he squot down, he did, en spread his wings, en Brer Rabbit, he mounted, en up dey riz."

Who acts: Den, en · What happens: ax, do, say, kyar, squot, spread · To what, where: Brer, wings, en · 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 (Den, en), 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

nsubjnsubjccobjflatadvmodnsubjflatadvclpunctnsubjapposflatnsubjccparataxiscompoundnsubjobjnmod:possflatcaseappospunctconjamodcompoundnmod:descnmodflatpunctnsubjapposcompound:prtpunctnsubjparataxispunctnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctconjapposflatpunctnsubjadvclpunctobjcompound:prtcompoundobjpunctpunctrootDenNOUNhePRONup'nCCONJaxVERBBrerPROPNBuzzardPROPNhowADVhePRONgwineNOUNdoVERB,PUNCTenNOUNBrerPROPNBuzzardPROPNhePRONup'nCCONJsayVERBdatNOUNhePRONkyarNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN'PARTcrossNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNwidADJdatNOUNoleNOUNBrerPROPNBuzzardPROPN,PUNCThePRONsquotNOUNdownADP,PUNCThePRONdidVERB,PUNCTenNOUNspreadVERBhisPRONwingsNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCThePRONmountedVERB,PUNCTenNOUNupADPdeyNOUNrizNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DendenNOUNNumber=Sing4 axnsubj
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 axnsubj
3up'nup'nCCONJ_4 axcc
4axaxVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing4 axobj
6BuzzardBuzzardPROPNNumber=Sing5 Brerflat
7howhowADVPronType=Int10 doadvmod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 donsubj
9gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing8 heflat
10dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 axadvcl
11,,PUNCT_12 enpunct
12enenNOUNNumber=Sing17 saynsubj
13BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing12 enappos
14BuzzardBuzzardPROPNNumber=Sing13 Brerflat
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 saynsubj
16up'nup'nCCONJ_17 saycc
17saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf4 axparataxis
18datdatNOUNNumber=Sing20 kyarcompound
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 kyarnsubj
20kyarkyarNOUNNumber=Sing17 sayobj
21BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing24 crossnmod:poss
22RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing21 Brerflat
23''sPART_21 Brercase
24crosscrossNOUNNumber=Sing20 kyarappos
25,,PUNCT_26 enpunct
26enenNOUNNumber=Sing24 crossconj
27widwidADJDegree=Pos29 oleamod
28datdatNOUNNumber=Sing29 olecompound
29oleoleNOUNNumber=Sing30 Brernmod:desc
30BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing26 ennmod
31BuzzardBuzzardPROPNNumber=Sing30 Brerflat
32,,PUNCT_34 squotpunct
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 squotnsubj
34squotsquotNOUNNumber=Sing30 Brerappos
35downdownADP_30 Brercompound:prt
36,,PUNCT_38 didpunct
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 didnsubj
38diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 sayparataxis
39,,PUNCT_41 spreadpunct
40enenNOUNNumber=Sing41 spreadnsubj
41spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 didconj
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 wingsnmod:poss
43wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur41 spreadobj
44,,PUNCT_45 enpunct
45enenNOUNNumber=Sing43 wingsconj
46BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing45 enappos
47RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing46 Brerflat
48,,PUNCT_50 mountedpunct
49hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs50 mountednsubj
50mountedmountVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 sayadvcl
51,,PUNCT_52 enpunct
52enenNOUNNumber=Sing50 mountedobj
53upupADP_50 mountedcompound:prt
54deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing55 rizcompound
55rizrizNOUNNumber=Sing50 mountedobj
56..PUNCT_4 axpunct
57""PUNCT_4 axpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1axinfinitiveDenBrertree rules
2dopresentDenvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertinfinitiveenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4kyarentree rules
5squotentree rules
6dopastenvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7spreadpastenen's wings and envn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
8mount uppastenenvn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent en=Theme riz=Destination

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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