Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 48
"Dis look so fa'r and squar' dat Brer B'ar he 'gree, en he take ole Brer Bull-frog by wunner his behime legs, en sling his axe on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock.
Who acts: Dis, en · What happens: look, gree, take, sle, put · To what, where: fa'r, en, ole Brer Bull frog, axe, shoulder, big flat rock
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 (Dis, 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | fa'r | fa'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 squar | cc |
| 7 | squar | squar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fa'r | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fa'r | punct |
| 9 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 11 B'ar | case |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 B'ar | compound |
| 11 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gree | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gree | punct |
| 14 | gree | gree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gree | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 frog | amod |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | compound |
| 21 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bull | punct |
| 23 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 wunner | case |
| 25 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | nmod |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 legs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 legs | compound |
| 28 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wunner | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 en | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | conj |
| 31 | sling | sle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 en | acl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 axe | nmod:poss |
| 33 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sling | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 shoulder | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 36 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sling | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 en | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frog | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 put | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 put | nsubj |
| 41 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | advcl |
| 42 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 put | xcomp |
| 43 | de | de | ADV | _ | 44 big | advmod |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rock | amod |
| 45 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rock | amod |
| 46 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 put | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Dis | fa'r and squar | dat Brer B'ar | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fa'r=Attribute | |||
| 2 | gree in a quote | infinitive | dis | en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | dis | en not said here | ole Brer Bull frog and en and en | by wunner dis's behime legs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frog=Destination | ||
| 4 | sle in a quote | gerund | en not said here | en's axe | en's shoulder | tree rules | |||
| 5 | put in a quote | past | en | big flat rock | f property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rock=Goal |
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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