Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 2
De wud wern't mo'n out'n his mouf 'fo' de groun' 'uz brok'd up en de goobers 'uz planted.
Who acts: De · What happens: not wu, out'n, ' up, plant · To what, where: wer, mouf, uz
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 (De), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wud | nsubj |
| 2 | wud | wu | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wer | wer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wud | obj |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 wud | advmod |
| 5 | mo'n | mo'n | CCONJ | _ | 6 out'n | cc |
| 6 | out'n | out'n | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wud | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouf | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out'n | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fo | punct |
| 10 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 groun | case |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fo | punct |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 groun | compound |
| 13 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 groun | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 brok | punct |
| 16 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brok | compound |
| 17 | brok | brok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 18 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 en | amod |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 'd | compound:prt |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out'n | obl |
| 21 | de | de | ADP | _ | 24 uz | case |
| 22 | goobers | goober | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 uz | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 goobers | case |
| 24 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | nmod |
| 25 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 uz | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wu | past | De | wer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | out'n | infinitive | De not said here | De's mouf | brok 'd en de goobers's uz obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ' up | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | plant | participle | goobers's uz not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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