Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 7
Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.'
Who acts: you · What happens: grow, hit · To what, where: yi goober pea, de groun
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), 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 | Hit | hit | INTJ | _ | 2 grow | discourse |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 groun | case |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 groun | compound |
| 5 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | obl |
| 6 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 5 groun | punct |
| 7 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | ccomp |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hit | xcomp |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 free | advmod |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grow | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 yi | punct |
| 12 | Ti | ti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yi | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ti | punct |
| 14 | yi | yi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pea | compound |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 yi | punct |
| 16 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 goober | compound |
| 17 | goober | goober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pea | compound |
| 18 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | imperative | you not said here | yi goober pea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | you not said here | de groun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | you not said here | free property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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