Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 32
I dunner whar you wuz, but I knows whar you is, Brer Bull-frog, en hit's you en me fer it.
Who acts: you, I, Brer frog, whar · What happens: wuz, be, en, fer · To what, where: dunner whar, me
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, Brer frog, whar), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 whar | nsubj |
| 2 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 whar | amod |
| 3 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wuz | nsubj |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 whar | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 knows | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 whar | acl:relcl |
| 10 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knows | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 knows | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knows | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Brer | punct |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 frog | compound |
| 15 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 frog | punct |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | compound |
| 20 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frog | conj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 hit | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 en | nsubj |
| 23 | en | en | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whar | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 en | obj |
| 25 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | obj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fer | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | you | dunner whar not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | dunner whar not said here | know property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | en | past | Brer frog and en hit | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fer | whar | 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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