Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 55
En w'en he riz way out in de pon' he riz a singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:
Who acts: En w'en, w'en, singin en dish · What happens: riz out, riz, w'at, sing · To what, where: way, de pon
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 w'en, w'en, singin en dish), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 w'en | compound |
| 2 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riz | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 riz | nsubj |
| 4 | riz | riz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riz | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 riz | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pon | case |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 pon | compound |
| 9 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riz | obl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pon | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 riz | nsubj |
| 12 | riz | riz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 riz | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 singin | det |
| 14 | singin | singin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dish | compound |
| 15 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 14 singin | dep |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dish | compound |
| 17 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 w'at | nsubj |
| 18 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 w'at | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 yer | case |
| 20 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 w'at | amod |
| 21 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 w'at | compound |
| 22 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riz | ccomp |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sing | nsubj |
| 24 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 w'at | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 riz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | riz out | present | En w'en | way | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | riz | present | w'en | de pon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | w'at | singin en dish | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | w'en | 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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