Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 3
W'en ole man Rabbit say scoot,' dey scooted, en w'en ole Miss Rabbit say 'scat,' dey scatted.
Who acts: W'en ole man Rabbit, w'en ole Miss Rabbit · What happens: say, scoot, scat · To what, where: scoot, dey, scat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (W'en ole man Rabbit, w'en ole Miss Rabbit), 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 | W'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Rabbit | nummod |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | scoot | scoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dey | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 dey | punct |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scoot | appos |
| 10 | scooted | scoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dey | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scoot | conj |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Rabbit | nummod |
| 14 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Rabbit | amod |
| 15 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rabbit | compound |
| 16 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 scat | punct |
| 19 | scat | scat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dey | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 dey | punct |
| 22 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scat | appos |
| 23 | scatted | scat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 dey | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | W'en ole man Rabbit | scoot and en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scoot=Topic | ||||
| 2 | scoot | participle | dey not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | w'en ole Miss Rabbit | scat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scat=Topic | ||||
| 4 | scat | participle | dey not said here | 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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