Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 28
You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Brer Rabbit done gone on by.
Who acts: out'n water en · What happens: tell, do, go on · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (out'n water en), 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 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 de | advmod |
| 4 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'at | compound |
| 6 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yo | compound |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yo | compound |
| 8 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | compound |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 yo | punct |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ai | compound:prt |
| 12 | out'n | out'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 out'n | flat:foreign |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ai | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | compound |
| 19 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Rabbit | acl |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 done | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 gone | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 gone | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | out'n water en | Brer Rabbit | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rabbit=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | participle | Brer Rabbit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go on | participle | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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