Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 33
Look like dey er bleedzd ter take atter der pa."
Who acts: you, bleedzd ter · What happens: look, take · To what, where: atter
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 (you, bleedzd ter), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 dey | case |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 take | advmod |
| 5 | bleedzd | bleedzd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ter | amod |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | advcl |
| 8 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 pa | amod |
| 10 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | like dey | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | present | bleedzd ter | atter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument atter=Theme pa=Destination |
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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