Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 38
"Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf.
Who acts: en · What happens: chomp · To what, where: toofies, de mouf
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ole | punct |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | flat |
| 4 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chomp | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chomp | nsubj |
| 7 | chomp | chomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ole | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 toofies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | toofies | toofy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chomp | obj |
| 10 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foam | amod |
| 11 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chomp | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 mouf | case |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 mouf | compound |
| 14 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chomp | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chomp in a quote | present | en | en's toofies | de mouf | 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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