Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 50
Den Brer B'ar, he draw long breff en pick up his axe.
Who acts: frog · What happens: draw, pick up · To what, where: long breff en, axe
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 (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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Den | parataxis |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 en | amod |
| 8 | breff | breff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draw | obj |
| 10 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 draw | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pick | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 axe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | frog | long breff en | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | frog not said here | frog's axe | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic |
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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