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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ax | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ax | nsubj |
| 3 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 4 ax | cc |
| 4 | ax | ax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ax | obj |
| 6 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 do | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 he | flat |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ax | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | nsubj |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 en | appos |
| 14 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 16 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ax | parataxis |
| 18 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kyar | compound |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kyar | nsubj |
| 20 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cross | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Brer | flat |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 Brer | case |
| 24 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kyar | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 en | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cross | conj |
| 27 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ole | amod |
| 28 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ole | compound |
| 29 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 en | nmod |
| 31 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 squot | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 squot | nsubj |
| 34 | squot | squot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | appos |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 Brer | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 did | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 did | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spread | punct |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spread | nsubj |
| 41 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 did | conj |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wings | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 spread | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 en | punct |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wings | conj |
| 46 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 en | appos |
| 47 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Brer | flat |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 mounted | punct |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 mounted | nsubj |
| 50 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | advcl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 en | punct |
| 52 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mounted | obj |
| 53 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 mounted | compound:prt |
| 54 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 riz | compound |
| 55 | riz | riz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mounted | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ax | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ax | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ax | infinitive | Den | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Den | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kyar | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | squot | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | do | past | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | spread | past | en | en's wings and en | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 8 | mount up | past | en | en | vn 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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