Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 35
"'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: go by, say, tuck off, come out, go · To what, where: Brer, en dry hisse'f · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 3 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | des | de | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sez | csubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 9 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sez | obj |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | appos |
| 14 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | conj |
| 16 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 man | appos |
| 17 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 tuck | compound:prt |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 tuck | advmod |
| 20 | de | de | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tuck | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 mule | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 skeer | det |
| 24 | skeer | skeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mule | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 24 skeer | case |
| 26 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | conj |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 en | appos |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hisse'f | compound |
| 36 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hisse'f | amod |
| 37 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 sun | case |
| 39 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 sun | compound |
| 40 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hisse'f | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 en | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hisse'f | conj |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | parataxis |
| 44 | home | home | ADV | _ | 43 go | advmod |
| 45 | ter | ter | SCONJ | _ | 52 man | mark |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 man | nmod:poss |
| 47 | fambly | fambly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 man | amod |
| 48 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 man | amod |
| 49 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 man | amod |
| 50 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 udder | compound |
| 51 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 man | compound |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by in a quote | present | Brer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tuck off in a quote | infinitive | de road like a skeer's mule and en; down property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come out in a quote | present | Brer | en dry hisse'f in de sun and en | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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