Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 9
He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dunner how ter ketch 'im.
Who acts: git, ole Brer Rabbit · What happens: speck, de, be, cover · To what, where: somebody, tracks
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 (git, ole Brer Rabbit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 speck | nsubj |
| 2 | sorter | sorter | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 speck | aux |
| 3 | speck | speck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 de | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speck | ccomp |
| 6 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 de | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 somebody | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cover | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cover | cc |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rabbit | amod |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | compound |
| 12 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cover | nsubj |
| 14 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 speck | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cover | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 cute | advmod |
| 18 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cover | advcl |
| 19 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 21 Fox | case |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | compound |
| 21 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cute | obl |
| 22 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 cute | conj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 ter | advmod |
| 24 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dunner | conj |
| 25 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 im | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 ketch | case |
| 27 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ter | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | git | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | de | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | somebody | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cover | infinitive | ole Brer Rabbit | git's tracks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent track=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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