Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 2
Dar wuz Brer Rabbit's chilluns; dey minded der daddy en mammy fum day's een' ter day's een'.
Who acts: Dar wuz · What happens: mind
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 (Dar wuz), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minded | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | appos |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Rabbit | case |
| 6 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wuz | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 minded | punct |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minded | nsubj |
| 9 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 day | amod |
| 11 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mammy | compound |
| 13 | mammy | mammy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 14 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minded | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 day | case |
| 17 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 een | punct |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | compound |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 een | compound |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 day | case |
| 22 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 een | appos |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 een | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | past | Dar wuz and Rabbit's chilluns | day | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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