Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 4
"One time ole man Rabbit, he wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin' his long, bushy tail, en feelin' mighty biggity."
Who acts: man · What happens: gwine
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 (man), 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 | _ | 10 gwine | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gwine | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gwine | nsubj |
| 9 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gwine | compound |
| 10 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 biggity | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 gwine | punct |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 down | advmod |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 gwine | advmod |
| 14 | de | de | ADP | _ | 16 shakin | case |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shakin | compound |
| 16 | shakin | shakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 biggity | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 shakin | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tail | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tail | amod |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 biggity | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feelin | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feelin | compound |
| 25 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tail | appos |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 feelin | punct |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 biggity | amod |
| 28 | biggity | biggity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 biggity | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 biggity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine in a quote | man | time | down property | 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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