Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 3
Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off en watch de motions, he did, en he sorter shet one eye en sing to his chilluns:
Who acts: Ole, sot · What happens: sot, watch, do, shet · To what, where: de motions, en, en sing
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 (Ole, sot), 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 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sot | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sot | nsubj |
| 6 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watch | nsubj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 en | case |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sot | nmod |
| 9 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 motions | compound |
| 11 | motions | motion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watch | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shet | nsubj |
| 18 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shet | compound |
| 19 | shet | shet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 en | nummod |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 en | compound |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sing | compound |
| 23 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shet | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 chilluns | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 26 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shet | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sot | Ole | off en | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | present | Ole | de motions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | sot | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | shet | infinitive | sot | en sing | to sot's chilluns | 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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