Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 26
"Den Brer B'ar laff, en make like he dunno, but he keep on talkin'.
Who acts: Den · What happens: make, keep · To what, where: talkin
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 (Den), 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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | list |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | conj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 dunno | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dunno | nsubj |
| 11 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 talkin | case |
| 17 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 talkin | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Den and en | like dunno | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | den | talkin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on talkin=Location |
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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