Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 23
De wedder wuz sorter col', en Brer Rabbit, he got 'im a bottle er dram en put out fer de creek, en w'en he git dar he pick out a good place, en he sorter squot down, he did, en let his tail hang in de water.
Who acts: en · What happens: get, put out, dar, pick out, squot down, do · To what, where: en put fer, good place, tail hang, de water
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 (en), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 col | compound |
| 2 | wedder | wed | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 De | amod |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorter | compound |
| 4 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 col | compound |
| 5 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 en | compound |
| 6 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 5 col | dep |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 en | appos |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 en | parataxis |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fer | punct |
| 14 | im | im | ADP | _ | 19 en | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 en | det |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | compound |
| 17 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dram | compound |
| 18 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | compound |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fer | compound |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fer | amod |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 creek | compound |
| 24 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fer | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 w'en | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 w'en | compound |
| 27 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fer | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dar | nsubj |
| 29 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dar | compound |
| 30 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 w'en | appos |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pick | nsubj |
| 32 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dar | parataxis |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 pick | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 place | amod |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pick | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 squot | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 squot | nsubj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 squot | nsubj |
| 40 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 squot | compound |
| 41 | squot | squot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fer | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 squot | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 did | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 did | nsubj |
| 45 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
| 47 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 let | nsubj |
| 48 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 did | conj |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 hang | nmod:poss |
| 50 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hang | compound |
| 51 | hang | hang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 let | obj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 water | case |
| 53 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 water | amod |
| 54 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 let | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | en | en put fer and de creek and en w'en and sorter squot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put out | participle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dar | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pick out | infinitive | en | a good place | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 5 | squot down | en | down property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | past | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | let | past | en | en's tail hang | de water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hang=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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