Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 31
"Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so 'twon't leak, en den dey kyar de water ter ole Brer Fox.
Who acts: little Rabbits, Up dey jump, two · What happens: do, fix, not leak · To what, where: de sifter, den dey kyar
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 (little Rabbits, Up dey jump, two), 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 | _ | 4 jump | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jump | amod |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | compound |
| 4 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fix | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 de | punct |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 jump | conj |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rabbits | amod |
| 8 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 de | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dey | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dey | compound |
| 12 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | conj |
| 13 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 sifter | compound |
| 15 | sifter | sifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fix | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 leak | advmod |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 leak | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 leak | nsubj |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 leak | advmod |
| 20 | leak | leak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fix | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kyar | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 den | compound |
| 23 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kyar | compound |
| 24 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kyar | compound |
| 25 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leak | obl |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 water | compound |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kyar | obj |
| 28 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 31 Fox | case |
| 29 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Fox | amod |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Fox | compound |
| 31 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kyar | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | little Rabbits | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fix in a quote | present | Up dey jump and en dey | de sifter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sifter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not leak in a quote | infinitive | two | den dey kyar ter ole Brer Fox | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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