Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 12
Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch 'im behime de fo'legs, en de saplin' flew'd up, en dar he wuz 'twix' de heavens en de yeth.
Who acts: Nex, de saplin · What happens: come, fly, ' up, wuz · To what, where: slippin, en
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 (Nex, de saplin), 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 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mawnin | punct |
| 3 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nex | appos |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mawnin | punct |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Nex | list |
| 6 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rabbit | amod |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rabbit | compound |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 w'en | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | slippin | slippin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 slippin | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 slippin | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thoo | amod |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thoo | compound |
| 15 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thoo | compound |
| 16 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slippin | conj |
| 17 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 crack | nmod:poss |
| 18 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thoo | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kotch | punct |
| 20 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 kotch | amod |
| 21 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knot | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 loop | punct |
| 23 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kotch | compound |
| 24 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crack | appos |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 behime | punct |
| 26 | im | im | X | _ | 27 behime | compound |
| 27 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fo'legs | compound |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 behime | flat:foreign |
| 29 | fo'legs | fo'leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kotch | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 en | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fo'legs | conj |
| 32 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 saplin | compound |
| 33 | saplin | saplin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | nsubj |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 saplin | punct |
| 35 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 en | acl:relcl |
| 36 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 flew | xcomp |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 'd | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dar | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dar | compound |
| 40 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fo'legs | conj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 wuz | nsubj |
| 42 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dar | conj |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 twix | punct |
| 44 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wuz | conj |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 twix | punct |
| 46 | de | de | ADP | _ | 48 en | case |
| 47 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 en | compound |
| 48 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 twix | nmod |
| 49 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 50 yeth | compound |
| 50 | yeth | yeth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 en | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Nex | slippin and long en crope thoo | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slippin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | de saplin | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ' up | participle | de saplin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wuz | Nex | 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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