Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 14
Brer Fox, he sot dar en study w'at sorter skuse he gwineter make up.
Who acts: Fox, Brer Fox · What happens: gwineter, make up
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 (Fox, Brer Fox), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gwineter | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gwineter | nsubj |
| 5 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gwineter | nsubj |
| 6 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skuse | amod |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 study | compound |
| 8 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'at | compound |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorter | compound |
| 10 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skuse | compound |
| 11 | skuse | skuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gwineter | compound |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gwineter | nsubj |
| 13 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 make | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwineter | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make up | infinitive | Brer Fox and skuse gwineter | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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