Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 32
"W'iles all dis 'uz gwine on, Brer Rabbit, he slip off en git in a mud-hole en des lef' his eyes stickin' out, kaze he know'd dat Brer B'ar'd be a comin' atter 'im.
Who acts: dis, W'iles, kaze, Brer · What happens: gwine on, slip off, know, dat, be · To what, where: en git, kaze, im, hole en, comin atter
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 (dis, W'iles, kaze, Brer), 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 W'iles | punct |
| 2 | W'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slip | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gwine | advmod |
| 4 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gwine | punct |
| 6 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | compound |
| 7 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 W'iles | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 gwine | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rabbit | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 W'iles | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slip | nsubj |
| 14 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 slip | compound:prt |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 git | compound |
| 17 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slip | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 en | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 en | det |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hole | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 mud | punct |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | compound |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dat | obl |
| 24 | des | des | X | _ | 25 lef | compound |
| 25 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stickin | compound |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lef | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stickin | compound |
| 29 | stickin | stickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | nmod |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 stickin | punct |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 stickin | compound |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kaze | punct |
| 33 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dat | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 33 kaze | acl:relcl |
| 36 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 dat | aux |
| 37 | dat | dat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 slip | parataxis |
| 38 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 atter | nsubj |
| 39 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Brer | flat |
| 40 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 atter | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 atter | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 atter | det |
| 43 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 atter | compound |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 atter | punct |
| 45 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dat | obj |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 atter | punct |
| 47 | im | im | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 dat | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine on in a quote | dis | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | slip off in a quote | present | W'iles | en git | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent git=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | kaze | kaze not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kaze=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dat in a quote | would | kaze | im | a hole en lef eyes stickin | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | would | Brer | a comin atter | 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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