Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 23
Brer Rabbit say he keepin' crows out'n Brer Fox's groun' pea patch, en den he ax Brer B'ar ef he don't wanter make dollar minnit, kaze he got big fambly er chilluns fer to take keer un, en den he make sech nice skeercrow.
Who acts: Brer, pea patch · What happens: say, crow, ax, not wanter, make, get · To what, where: groun, Brer ef, dollar minnit, big er chilluns fer, keer un, sech nice skeercrow · 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, pea patch), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crows | nsubj |
| 5 | keepin | keepin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crows | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 keepin | case |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | ccomp |
| 8 | out'n | out'n | CCONJ | _ | 12 groun | cc |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 groun | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Fox | case |
| 12 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crows | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 patch | punct |
| 14 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patch | compound |
| 15 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ax | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 den | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 den | compound |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patch | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ax | nsubj |
| 20 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 groun | acl:relcl |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ef | compound |
| 22 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Brer | flat |
| 23 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ax | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wanter | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wanter | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wanter | advmod |
| 27 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ef | acl:relcl |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 29 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 minnit | compound |
| 30 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kaze | punct |
| 32 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 minnit | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 got | nsubj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 minnit | acl:relcl |
| 35 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fer | amod |
| 36 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 37 er | advmod |
| 37 | er | er | X | _ | 39 fer | compound |
| 38 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fer | compound |
| 39 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 fer | acl |
| 42 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 un | compound |
| 43 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 den | punct |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 den | compound |
| 46 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 un | conj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 make | nsubj |
| 48 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 un | parataxis |
| 49 | sech | sech | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 skeercrow | amod |
| 50 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 skeercrow | amod |
| 51 | skeercrow | skeercrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 make | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | crow | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ax | pea patch and en den | Brer Fox's groun not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not wanter | present · do-support | Brer | Brer ef not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | dollar minnit and kaze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset minnit=Product | |||||
| 6 | get | past | Brer | big er chilluns fer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fer=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | Brer not said here | keer un and en den | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent un=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make | present | Brer | sech nice skeercrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeercrow=Product |
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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