Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 4
Hit sorter like settin' a mule fer ter trap a hummin'-bird.
Who acts: you, fer ter, hummin · What happens: hit, trap, bird · To what, where: sorter
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, fer ter, hummin), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 settin | case |
| 4 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trap | obl |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 settin | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ter | det |
| 7 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fer | compound |
| 8 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ter | compound |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trap | nsubj |
| 10 | trap | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hummin | det |
| 12 | hummin | hummin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hummin | punct |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trap | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | sorter | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sorter=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | trap | present | a fer ter | like settin | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bird | a hummin | 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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