Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 8
"Sho' 'nuff w'en de goobers 'gun ter ripen up, eve'y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he fine whar somebody bin grabblin' 'mongst de vines, en he git mighty mad.
Who acts: gun ter, Fox · What happens: ripen up, go down, grabblin · To what, where: Sho nuff
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 (gun ter, Fox), 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 Sho | punct |
| 2 | Sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 5 nuff | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sho | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nuff | punct |
| 5 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ripen | obl |
| 6 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 nuff | dep |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goobers | amod |
| 8 | goobers | goober | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 goobers | case |
| 10 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ripen | nsubj |
| 12 | ripen | ripen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ripen | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 15 | eve'y | eve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ripen | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | conj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 ripen | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 23 patch | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 patch | nmod:poss |
| 23 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grabblin | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 grabblin | nsubj |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grabblin | amod |
| 27 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grabblin | amod |
| 28 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 bin | compound |
| 29 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grabblin | compound |
| 30 | grabblin | grabblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ripen | parataxis |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 mad | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 vines | punct |
| 33 | mongst | mongst | ADP | _ | 35 vines | case |
| 34 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vines | compound |
| 35 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 mad | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 en | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vines | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 mad | nsubj |
| 39 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 mad | nsubj |
| 40 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 mad | amod |
| 41 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grabblin | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ripen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripen up in a quote | present | de goobers's gun ter | Sho nuff | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | go down in a quote | infinitive | de goobers's gun ter not said here | ter Fox's patch; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | grabblin in a quote | Fox | 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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