Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 49
When he git dar he lay Brer Bullfrog down on de rock, en Brer Bull-frog make like he lookin' 'roun' fer his folks.
Who acts: en, git dar, Brer Bull frog · What happens: dar, lie down, make · To what, where: Brer, de rock, en
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, git dar, Brer Bull frog), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dar | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dar | nsubj |
| 3 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | compound |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 8 | Bullfrog | Bullfrog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 rock | compound |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rock | conj |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 frog | compound |
| 16 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frog | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bull | punct |
| 18 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 en | acl:relcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 lookin | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lookin | nsubj |
| 22 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fer | obl |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 lookin | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 roun | punct |
| 25 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fer | nsubj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 roun | punct |
| 27 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 make | xcomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 folks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fer | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lie down | past | git dar | Brer | de rock and en | down property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | make | present | Brer Bull frog | en not said here | f property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Product |
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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