Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 5
But Brer B'ar, he tuck'n got hisse'f inter some mo' trubble, w'ich it look like it mighty easy.
Who acts: Brer, mo trubble · What happens: get, look
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, mo trubble), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hisse'f | hisse'f | ADV | _ | 9 inter | advmod |
| 9 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trubble | det |
| 11 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trubble | compound |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 trubble | punct |
| 13 | trubble | trubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 w'ich | punct |
| 15 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trubble | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | parataxis |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 easy | amod |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Brer | int property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | present | some mo trubble and w'ich | like tuck'n; easy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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