Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 22

"En de little Rabbits, dey hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but they couldn't broke it.

Who acts: En, hustle · What happens: rastle, not broke · To what, where: wid

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 (En, hustle), 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	_	13 rastle	punct
2	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rastle	nsubj
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 En	flat:foreign
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Rabbits	amod
5	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 En	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hustle	punct
7	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hustle	compound
8	hustle	hustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbits	appos
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
10	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	compound
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hustle	conj
13	rastle	rastle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rastle	obj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rastle	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 broke	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 broke	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 broke	advmod
21	broke	broke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rastle	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rastle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rastle in a quote	infinitive	En little Rabbits	wid					tree rules
2	not broke in a quote	could	hustle	wid					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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