Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 8
Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took 'im for a ha'nt, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo' eyeballs.
Who acts: Brer, er, wid, you · What happens: have, not get up, take, squinch · To what, where: kotch, bu'nt witches, yo eyeballs
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, er, wid, 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ole | compound |
| 2 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 9 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 de | punct |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 wid | conj |
| 14 | nabers | naber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 er | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 nabers | case |
| 16 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | compound |
| 17 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 de | obj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | advcl |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 im | punct |
| 20 | im | im | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 took | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 ha'nt | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ha'nt | det |
| 23 | ha'nt | ha'nt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ha'nt | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 times | case |
| 27 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 times | compound |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obl |
| 29 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bu'nt | compound |
| 30 | bu'nt | bu'nt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 witches | compound |
| 31 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obj |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 witches | case |
| 33 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 37 squinch | mark |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 squinch | punct |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 squinch | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 squinch | aux |
| 37 | squinch | squinch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | advcl |
| 38 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eyeballs | compound |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 yo | punct |
| 40 | eyeballs | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 squinch | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Brer Ef ole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not get up | past | er | kotch | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kotch=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | wid | bu'nt witches | time | for a ha'nt and en | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent witch=Theme for ha'nt=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | squinch | could | you | yo eyeballs | 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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