Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 3
Tain't bin proned inter no Brer B'ar fer ter kotch Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: not bin, prone, kotch · To what, where: proned inter
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 (Brer), 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 | Tai | tai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bin | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 bin | advmod |
| 3 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proned | prone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 inter | amod |
| 5 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | obj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 kotch | det |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kotch | nsubj |
| 8 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kotch | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kotch | compound |
| 11 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | obj |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kotch | appos |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | proned inter | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inter=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | prone | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | kotch | Brer | 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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