Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 27
"Den ole Brer Buzzard, he laff, he did, twel he shake, en Brer Rabbit, he sing out:
Who acts: Brer, en · What happens: laff, twel, shake, s out · To what, where: Brer Rabbit
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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 twel | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 5 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laff | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laff | nsubj |
| 8 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 twel | aux |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 13 | twel | twel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shake | nsubj |
| 15 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 twel | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rabbit | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | compound |
| 19 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 twel | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sing | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sing | nsubj |
| 22 | sing | s | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 twel | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sing | compound:prt |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 twel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laff in a quote | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | twel in a quote | past · do-support | Brer Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | infinitive | Brer | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | s out in a quote | gerund | 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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