Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 22
"Right dar's whar Brer Rabbit drap his watermillion, kaze he tuck'n sot out dat night en went a fishin'.
Who acts: whar, tuck'n sot · What happens: drap, sot out, go · To what, where: watermillion, fishin
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 (whar, tuck'n sot), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 drap | punct |
| 2 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dar | amod |
| 3 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whar | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dar | case |
| 5 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drap | nsubj |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whar | appos |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brer | flat |
| 8 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sot | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 watermillion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | watermillion | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drap | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kaze | punct |
| 12 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watermillion | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sot | nsubj |
| 14 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sot | compound |
| 15 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sot | compound:prt |
| 17 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 en | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | compound |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fishin | det |
| 22 | fishin | fishin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fishin | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap in a quote | present | Right dar's whar | whar's watermillion and kaze | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sot out in a quote | whar | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | tuck'n sot | a fishin | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishin=Theme |
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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