Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 14
W'en Brer B'ar got his clampers on 'im good, he sot down en talk at 'im.
Who acts: W'en, sot · What happens: get, sot down, talk · To what, where: clampers, good, im
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 (W'en, sot), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clampers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clampers | clamper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 good | case |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 9 | im | im | ADV | _ | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sot | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sot | nsubj |
| 13 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sot | compound:prt |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talk | compound |
| 16 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 im | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 im | punct |
| 19 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 talk | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | W'en | w'en's clampers | good | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent clamper=Theme on good=Source | |||
| 2 | sot down | w'en | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | talk | sot | im | 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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