Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 9
"I notices dat dem fokes w'at makes a great 'miration 'bout w'at dey knows is des de fokes w'ich you can't put no 'pennunce in w'en de 'cashun come up.
Who acts: man, dat, w'at dey, des, you · What happens: notice, make, know, w'ich, not put, come up · To what, where: great miration, pennunce, w'en de
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, dat, w'at dey, des), 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 | _ | 3 notices | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 notices | nsubj |
| 3 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dat | dat | X | _ | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | dem | dem | X | _ | 4 dat | goeswith |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 w'at | compound |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 notices | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 miration | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 miration | amod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 miration | punct |
| 12 | miration | miration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 miration | punct |
| 14 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | compound |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dey | compound |
| 16 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 miration | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 des | cop |
| 19 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 w'ich | nsubj |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 des | flat:foreign |
| 21 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 w'ich | compound |
| 22 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 24 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 put | advmod |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 w'ich | acl:relcl |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 pennunce | det |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 pennunce | punct |
| 29 | pennunce | pennunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 de | case |
| 31 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 de | compound |
| 32 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 cashun | punct |
| 34 | cashun | cashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 de | conj |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 notices | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice in a quote | present | man | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | dat | a great miration | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset miration=Product | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | w'at dey | a great miration not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer miration=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | w'ich in a quote | des | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not put in a quote | can | you | no pennunce | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pennunce=Goal | ||||
| 6 | come up in a quote | present | you not said here | w'en de and cashun | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in de=Location |
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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