Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 29
She did dat, and dat w'at make all deze yer bob-tail rabbits w'at you see hoppin' en skaddlin' thoo de woods."
Who acts: dat, you · What happens: do, make, deze, see · To what, where: rabbits w'at, hoppin
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 (dat, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 w'at | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 w'at | cc |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'at | compound |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | conj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 deze | advmod |
| 10 | deze | deze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bob | bob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bob | punct |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rabbits | compound |
| 15 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 w'at | compound |
| 16 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deze | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 19 | hoppin | hoppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 skaddlin | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skaddlin | compound |
| 22 | skaddlin | skaddlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hoppin | appos |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 woods | punct |
| 24 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 de | compound |
| 25 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 woods | compound |
| 26 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 skaddlin | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dat | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | dat and dat w'at | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deze | infinitive | dat and dat w'at not said here | yer's rabbits w'at | all property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | present | you | hoppin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoppin=Stimulus |
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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