Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 30
"But 'fo' dey got down fum dar, Brer Rabbit done tole all 'bout de crap, en he hatter prommus fer ter 'vide fa'r en squar.
Who acts: dey, you · What happens: get down, fum, squar · To what, where: dar, en
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 (dey, you), 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 | _ | 9 fum | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fum | cc |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 got | mark |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fum | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fum | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tole | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | compound |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tole | compound |
| 14 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tole | amod |
| 15 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fum | obl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 bout | advmod |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 18 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tole | nmod |
| 19 | de | de | ADP | _ | 20 crap | case |
| 20 | crap | crap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bout | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tole | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 squar | nsubj |
| 24 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fer | compound |
| 25 | prommus | prommus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fer | compound |
| 26 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 squar | nsubj |
| 27 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 squar | nsubj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 squar | punct |
| 29 | vide | vide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fa'r | compound |
| 30 | fa'r | fa'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 en | compound |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 squar | compound |
| 32 | squar | squar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 en | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down in a quote | past | dey | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fum in a quote | imperative | you not said here | dar | Rabbit done tole bout de crap and en obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | squar in a quote | Dey | en not said here | 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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