Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 45
He know he can't drown 'im, en he ain't got no fier fer ter bu'n 'im, en he git mighty pestered.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: know, not drown, not get, pester · To what, where: im, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drown | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 drown | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 drown | advmod |
| 6 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 im | punct |
| 8 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 im | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 12 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 drown | advcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bu'n | det |
| 16 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fer | compound |
| 17 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | compound |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bu'n | compound |
| 19 | bu'n | bu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 im | punct |
| 21 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bu'n | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 en | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bu'n | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pestered | nsubj |
| 25 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pestered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pestered | amod |
| 27 | pestered | pester | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 en | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Brer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not drown | can | Brer | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not get | present · passive | Brer | im and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bu'n=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pester | participle · passive | Brer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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