Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 11
Brer B'ar drap his axe, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his paw, en scoop ole Brer Bull-frog in des dis away."
Who acts: Brer, en · What happens: drap, do up, retch out, wi · To what, where: axe, en crope, paw
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, en), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drap | nsubj |
| 2 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 axe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drap | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drap | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crope | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crope | compound |
| 11 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 did | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 retch | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 retch | nsubj |
| 15 | retch | retch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drap | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 retch | compound:prt |
| 17 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 retch | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 paw | nmod:poss |
| 19 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wid | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ole | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ole | compound |
| 22 | scoop | scoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ole | compound |
| 23 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paw | appos |
| 24 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 frog | compound |
| 25 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 frog | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Bull | punct |
| 27 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ole | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dis | case |
| 29 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dis | compound |
| 30 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 frog | nmod |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 wid | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drap | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 drap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap | infinitive | Brer | Brer's axe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do up | past | Brer | en crope | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crope=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | retch out | infinitive | en | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wi | past | en not said here | Brer's paw | away property | 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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