Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 37
Oh, pray, Brer B'ar! do lemme off dis time, en I'll show you de fattes' bee-tree in de woods.'
Who acts: you, en · What happens: pray, lemme off, show · To what, where: Brer, bee tree, you, de woods
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, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 pray | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obj |
| 6 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 lemme | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lemme | aux |
| 9 | lemme | lemme | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 lemme | compound:prt |
| 11 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lemme | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 show | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | aux |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lemme | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 show | iobj |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 show | flat:foreign |
| 20 | fattes | fatte | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tree | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 fattes | case |
| 22 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bee | punct |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 26 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woods | compound |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 show | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lemme off | present · do-support | you not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | future | en | fattes's bee tree | you | de woods | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tree=Topic |
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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