Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 31
"'Hit 'im in de mouf, Brer Fox; hit 'im in do mouf'; en Brer Fox, he draw back wid de walkin' cane, en blip he tuck 'im, en eve'y time Brer B'ar'd try ter 'splain, Brer Fox'd shower down on him.
Who acts: you, Fox, splain · What happens: hit, do, draw back, walk, try, shower down · To what, where: im, de mouf, mouf, cane, en blip · 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 (you, Fox, splain), 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 | _ | 3 Hit | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hit | punct |
| 3 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hit | punct |
| 5 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Hit | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouf | case |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 mouf | compound |
| 8 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hit | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hit | punct |
| 13 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hit | parataxis |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 im | punct |
| 15 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hit | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 do | case |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hit | advcl |
| 18 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouf | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fox | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hit | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 draw | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 draw | nsubj |
| 26 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hit | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 draw | advmod |
| 28 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 de | amod |
| 29 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 walkin | compound |
| 30 | walkin | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 draw | advcl |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 walkin | punct |
| 32 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 walkin | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 blip | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blip | compound |
| 35 | blip | blip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cane | appos |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 try | nsubj |
| 37 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 try | nsubj |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 im | punct |
| 39 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tuck | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 en | punct |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tuck | conj |
| 42 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 time | compound |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 44 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 en | nmod |
| 45 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Brer | flat |
| 46 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 try | aux |
| 47 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 blip | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 splain | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 48 ter | case |
| 50 | splain | splain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 shower | nsubj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Brer | punct |
| 52 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 splain | appos |
| 53 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Brer | flat |
| 54 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 shower | aux |
| 55 | shower | shower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 try | ccomp |
| 56 | down | down | ADP | _ | 55 shower | compound:prt |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 58 him | case |
| 58 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 shower | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | imperative | you not said here | im | de mouf | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent im=Patient fox=Result | |||
| 2 | hit in a quote | infinitive | im | en Brer Fox obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme im=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | mouf | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouf=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | draw back in a quote | present | Fox | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | walk in a quote | gerund | Fox not said here | cane | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cane=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | try in a quote | would | Fox | en blip not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shower down in a quote | would | ter's splain | on Fox | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on he=Destination |
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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