Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 32
Den Brer Fox he git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wood, en tell de little Rabbits fer ter put dat on de fier.
Who acts: great big stick, er wood, little Rabbits · What happens: wood, tell, put · To what, where: mighty mad en p'int, dat, de fier · 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 (great big stick, er wood, little Rabbits), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 git | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 git | nsubj |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 p'int | amod |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 p'int | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mad | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 p'int | compound |
| 10 | p'int | p'int | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 p'int | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stick | amod |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stick | amod |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wood | nsubj |
| 16 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wood | compound |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wood | conj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 git | acl:relcl |
| 21 | de | de | ADV | _ | 20 tell | advmod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Rabbits | amod |
| 23 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | nsubj |
| 24 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 ter | amod |
| 25 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 fier | case |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 fier | compound |
| 30 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 git | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wood | great big stick | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a er wood and en | mighty mad en p'int | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent git=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | past | little Rabbits | dat | de fier | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme on fier=Destination |
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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