Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 20
"One day Brer Rabbit wuz gwine down de road shakin' his long, bushy tail, w'en who should he strike up wid but ole Brer Fox gwine amblin' long wid a big string er fish!
Who acts: long bushy tail · What happens: strike up · To what, where: wid Brer gwine amblin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long bushy tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gwine | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | compound |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | compound |
| 6 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | compound |
| 7 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 gwine | compound:prt |
| 9 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 shakin | case |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shakin | compound |
| 11 | shakin | shakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | nmod |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 shakin | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tail | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tail | amod |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shakin | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 w'en | punct |
| 19 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tail | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 strike | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 strike | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 strike | nsubj |
| 23 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tail | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 strike | compound:prt |
| 25 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 amblin | amod |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 ole | cc |
| 27 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wid | conj |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 amblin | compound |
| 29 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gwine | compound |
| 30 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 amblin | compound |
| 31 | amblin | amblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strike | obj |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 amblin | punct |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wid | amod |
| 34 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 amblin | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fish | det |
| 36 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fish | amod |
| 37 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 er | compound |
| 38 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fish | compound |
| 39 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wid | nmod |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike up in a quote | should | gwine's long bushy tail and w'en | wid Brer gwine amblin and long wid a big er fish | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amblin=Patient |
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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