Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 10
Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a walk all roun' de groun'-pea patch, en 'twan't long 'fo' he fine a crack in de fence whar de rail done bin rub right smoove, en right dar he sot 'im a trap.
Who acts: Brer, roun, de fence whar · What happens: take, patch, fine, do, rub, sot · To what, where: walk, crack, de fence whar, bin, right smoove
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 (Brer, roun, de fence whar), 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 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 walk | det |
| 9 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 roun | det |
| 11 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patch | nsubj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 roun | punct |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 groun | compound |
| 14 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pea | compound |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 groun | punct |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pea | punct |
| 17 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patch | compound |
| 18 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patch | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 twa | punct |
| 22 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | conj |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 take | advmod |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 fo | punct |
| 26 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 29 fine | mark |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 fo | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fine | nsubj |
| 29 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 rub | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 crack | det |
| 31 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fine | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 whar | case |
| 33 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 whar | amod |
| 34 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 whar | compound |
| 35 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fine | obl |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 rail | compound |
| 37 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 whar | conj |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 whar | acl |
| 39 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 done | obj |
| 40 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | parataxis |
| 41 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 smoove | amod |
| 42 | smoove | smoove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rub | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 en | punct |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 smoove | conj |
| 45 | right | right | ADV | _ | 48 sot | advmod |
| 46 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sot | compound |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 sot | nsubj |
| 48 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rub | obl |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 sot | punct |
| 50 | im | im | ADP | _ | 52 trap | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 trap | det |
| 52 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rub | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | Brer | a walk | day | Bimeby vocative; long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||
| 2 | patch | all roun | a walk not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fine | past | roun | a crack | de fence whar and de rail | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crack=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | participle | de fence whar and de rail not said here | bin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | rub | present | right smoove and en | im a trap | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent smoove=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sot | roun | right property | tree rules |
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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