Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 24
He sot dar, en he sot dar, en he drunk his dram, en he think he gwineter freeze, but bimeby day come, en dar he wuz.
Who acts: en · What happens: dar, drink, think, come, wuz · To what, where: dram, gwineter freeze, en dar
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dar | nsubj |
| 2 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dar | compound |
| 3 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dar | punct |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dar | nsubj |
| 7 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | compound |
| 8 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dar | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drunk | nsubj |
| 12 | drunk | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 en | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dram | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drunk | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gwineter | nsubj |
| 20 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 freeze | amod |
| 21 | freeze | freeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 think | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 24 | bimeby | bimeby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dar | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dar | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dar | compound |
| 29 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wuz | nsubj |
| 31 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dar | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | drink | past | en | en's dram | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dram=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | en | gwineter freeze | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot freeze=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | en dar and wuz | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wuz | 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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