Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 17
"Brer B'ar, he look 'roun en bimeby he see Brer Rabbit swingin' fum de saplin', en he holler out:
Who acts: Brer, Brer Rabbit, saplin en · What happens: look, see, fum, holler out · To what, where: Brer, roun bimeby · 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 (Brer, Brer Rabbit, saplin 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 | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 roun | punct |
| 8 | roun | roun | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bimeby | amod |
| 9 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 roun | flat |
| 10 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bimeby | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | compound |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fum | nsubj |
| 15 | swingin | swingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fum | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fum | punct |
| 17 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | ccomp |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 saplin | compound |
| 19 | saplin | saplin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 en | compound |
| 20 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 19 saplin | dep |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holler | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 holler | nsubj |
| 23 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fum | nmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 holler | compound:prt |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Brer | Brer | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bimeby=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Brer | roun bimeby not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bimeby=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fum in a quote | Brer Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | holler out speech: other in a quote | saplin en | 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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