Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 47
"'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon', whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.'
Who acts: Ef, er, Brer, um, you · What happens: kill out, whar, kin, see, take, axe · To what, where: Brer, de aidge, pon whar, en atter, en sqush · 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 (Ef, er, Brer, um), 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 | _ | 6 kill | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ef | punct |
| 3 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gwineter | nsubj |
| 5 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 Ef | conj |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obj |
| 10 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kyar | punct |
| 12 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | appos |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kyar | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 15 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 17 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 kill | compound:prt |
| 20 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 aidge | case |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 aidge | compound |
| 23 | aidge | aidge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obl |
| 24 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 whar | nsubj |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 er | flat:foreign |
| 26 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pon | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 mill | punct |
| 28 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 whar | compound |
| 29 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 28 pon | dep |
| 30 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | parataxis |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 kin | nsubj |
| 32 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 whar | acl:relcl |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kin | xcomp |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 atter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 38 atter | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fambly | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 atter | compound |
| 38 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 see | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 see | nsubj |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | ccomp |
| 41 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 take | nsubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 den | punct |
| 43 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 um | conj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 take | nsubj |
| 45 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 take | aux |
| 46 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 see | ccomp |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 axe | nsubj |
| 48 | axe | axe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 take | ccomp |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sqush | compound |
| 50 | sqush | sqush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 axe | obj |
| 51 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 sqush | nmod:unmarked |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill out in a quote | infinitive | Ef | Brer | de aidge | ter that big flat rock | tree rules | ||
| 2 | whar in a quote | er | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | kin in a quote | present | Brer | pon whar not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | Brer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | Brer | my en atter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | um and den | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||||
| 7 | axe in a quote | present | you | en sqush me | 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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