Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 13
De little Rabbits, dey mighty skittish, en dey sorter huddle deyse'f up tergedder en watch Brer Fox motions.
Who acts: De little Rabbits, tergedder en · What happens: huddle up, watch · To what, where: deyse'f, Brer Fox motions
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 (De little Rabbits, tergedder 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbits | compound |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbits | amod |
| 3 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 huddle | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dey | punct |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbits | conj |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sorter | amod |
| 7 | skittish | skittish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sorter | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skittish | punct |
| 9 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sorter | amod |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorter | compound |
| 11 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbits | conj |
| 12 | huddle | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | deyse'f | deyse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 huddle | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 huddle | compound:prt |
| 15 | tergedder | tergedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | compound |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | nsubj |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 huddle | parataxis |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 motions | compound |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 motions | compound |
| 20 | motions | motion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 huddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huddle up | present | De little Rabbits and dey and mighty skittish en dey sorter | deyse'f | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location deyse'f=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | tergedder en | Brer Fox motions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme |
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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