Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 1
"DAR wuz one season" said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his whiskers, "w'en Brer Fox say to hisse'f dat he speck he better whirl in en plant a goober-patch, en in dem days, mon, hit wuz tech en go.
Who acts: wuz one season, w'en · What happens: say, pull, speck, hit, go · To what, where: whiskers, Remus, wuz · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz one season, w'en), 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 | _ | 5 season | punct |
| 2 | DAR | DAR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 season | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 season | nummod |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 season | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Remus | compound |
| 9 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulling | punct |
| 11 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 11 pulling | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 whiskers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 say | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whiskers | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 w'en | punct |
| 18 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 say | nsubj |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 w'en | appos |
| 20 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Brer | flat |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pulling | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 dat | case |
| 23 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dat | compound |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speck | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 speck | nsubj |
| 26 | speck | speck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 say | ccomp |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 speck | obj |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 whirl | amod |
| 29 | whirl | whirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speck | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 plant | case |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plant | compound |
| 32 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whirl | nmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 patch | det |
| 34 | goober | goober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 patch | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 goober | punct |
| 36 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plant | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 en | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 patch | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 days | case |
| 40 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 days | compound |
| 41 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 en | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mon | punct |
| 43 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 patch | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hit | punct |
| 45 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 speck | parataxis |
| 46 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hit | obj |
| 47 | tech | tech | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 en | amod |
| 48 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hit | obj |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 45 hit | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wuz one season | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | wuz one season not said here | thoughtfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | w'en | Remus's whiskers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | speck in a quote | infinitive | w'en | Remus | to hisse'f dat | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hit in a quote | infinitive | wuz | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wuz=Patient en=Result | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | 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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