Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 37
Brer Fox, he seed his game wuz up, en 'twan't long 'fo' he make his skuse en start fer ter go.
Who acts: Fox, game, skuse fer ter · What happens: seed, wuz up, not make, not go · To what, where: seed, skuse fer ter
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 (Fox, game, skuse fer ter), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seed | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seed | nsubj |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | appos |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 game | nmod:poss |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | nsubj |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seed | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wuz | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 twa | punct |
| 13 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | conj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 make | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 make | advmod |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 17 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 make | mark |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 twa | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skuse | skuse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ter | amod |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | compound |
| 24 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fer | compound |
| 25 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ter | compound |
| 26 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seed | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | wuz up | present | Fox's game | seed not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | infinitive | game | Fox's skuse fer ter | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not go | infinitive | Fox's skuse fer ter not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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