Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 36
"En des 'bout de time dey got de wood on de fier, der daddy, he come skippin' in, en de little bird, he flew'd away.
Who acts: des bout, bout · What happens: get, come, fly · To what, where: de wood, de fier, skippin
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 (des bout, bout), 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 | _ | 3 des | punct |
| 2 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 des | compound |
| 3 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bout | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 des | punct |
| 5 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 6 | de | de | ADP | _ | 8 dey | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dey | compound |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bout | nmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wood | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fier | case |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 fier | compound |
| 14 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 daddy | punct |
| 16 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 daddy | amod |
| 17 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fier | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | parataxis |
| 21 | skippin | skippin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 skippin | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | parataxis |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 en | conj |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 de | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flew | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 flew | nsubj |
| 31 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | parataxis |
| 32 | 'd | 'd | ADV | _ | 33 away | advmod |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 flew | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | des bout de time dey | de wood | de fier | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fier=Source | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | bout | skippin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skippin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | past | bout | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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