Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 17
"De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar-cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid it, en sweat over it, but twan't no use.
Who acts: De little Rabbits, dey, en dey, wid, twa · What happens: get out, do, rastle, wid, not use · To what, where: de sugar cane
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, dey, en dey, wid), 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbits | compound |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rabbits | amod |
| 4 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cane | amod |
| 10 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cane | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sugar | punct |
| 12 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 14 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rastle | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dey | compound |
| 18 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rastle | nsubj |
| 19 | rastle | rastle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 did | conj |
| 20 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rastle | obj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wid | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweat | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sweat | compound |
| 24 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wid | appos |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sweat | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 use | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 use | cc |
| 29 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 use | nsubj |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 use | advmod |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 use | det |
| 32 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out in a quote | past | De little Rabbits | de sugar cane | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rastle in a quote | infinitive | en dey | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wid in a quote | wid | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not use in a quote | twa | 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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