Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 11
Ole Brer Rabbit, he wuz off some'rs raiding on a collard patch, en ole Miss Rabbit she wuz tendin' on a quiltin' in de naberhood, en wiles de little Rabbits wuz playin' hidin'-switch, in drapt Brer Fox.
Who acts: Ole, wuz some'rs, en wiles, little Rabbits · What happens: wuz off, some'r, raid, wuz, de · To what, where: collard patch, tendin, quiltin, de naberhood, playin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, wuz some'rs, en wiles, little Rabbits), 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 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 some'rs | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wuz | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wuz | nsubj |
| 6 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 some'rs | compound |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 wuz | compound:prt |
| 8 | some'rs | some'r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wuz | nsubj |
| 9 | raiding | raid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 some'rs | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 patch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 patch | det |
| 12 | collard | collard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patch | compound |
| 13 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raiding | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wuz | nsubj |
| 16 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rabbit | amod |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wuz | nsubj |
| 20 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | tendin | tendin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wuz | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 tendin | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 quiltin | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 quiltin | det |
| 25 | quiltin | quiltin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wuz | obl |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 quiltin | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 naberhood | case |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 naberhood | compound |
| 29 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 de | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 de | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wiles | compound |
| 32 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 de | nsubj |
| 33 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wuz | conj |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Rabbits | amod |
| 35 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wuz | nsubj |
| 36 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 de | ccomp |
| 37 | playin | playin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | obj |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 hidin | punct |
| 39 | hidin | hidin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 playin | conj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 hidin | punct |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 switch | punct |
| 42 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hidin | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Fox | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 drapt | case |
| 45 | drapt | drapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Fox | compound |
| 46 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Fox | compound |
| 47 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz off | Ole | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | some'r | Ole | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | raid | gerund | wuz some'rs not said here | a collard patch | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wuz | present | wuz some'rs | tendin | a quiltin | tree rules | |||
| 5 | de | present | en wiles | de naberhood | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wuz | present | little Rabbits | playin and hidin and switch | drapt Brer Fox obl | 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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