Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 22
You had yo' fun, Brer Bull-frog, en now I'll git mine.'
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, git · To what, where: yo fun, mine
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yo | punct |
| 5 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frog | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | compound |
| 8 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 frog | punct |
| 10 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | conj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 git | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 git | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 git | aux |
| 16 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 git | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | yo fun and Brer frog and en | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | git | future | I | mine | now | 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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