Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 21
"'You er de man w'at tuck en fool me 'bout Brer Rabbit t'er day.
Who acts: You · What happens: er, fool · To what, where: de man, frog
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 er | nsubj |
| 4 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | obj |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 8 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 10 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 er | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fool | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 13 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 15 Rabbit | case |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Rabbit | compound |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 er | obl |
| 16 | t'er | t'er | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er in a quote | present | You | de man and w'at tuck en | day | bout Brer Rabbit | tree rules | ||
| 2 | fool in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | frog | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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