Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 24
"'W'at I bin doin', Brer B'ar?
Who acts: frog · What happens: bin · To what, where: W'at
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 (frog), 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 | _ | 5 bin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 W'at | punct |
| 3 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bin | nsubj |
| 5 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obj |
| 7 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brer | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 doin | appos |
| 9 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | frog | W'at | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent doin=Theme |
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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