Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 23
W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de bed-cord, en gun de yuther een' to Brer B'ar.
Who acts: W'en · What happens: wanter, tuck · To what, where: one een er
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 place | compound |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wanter | nsubj |
| 8 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tuck | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tuck | nsubj |
| 11 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | parataxis |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 er | nummod |
| 13 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 er | nummod |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tuck | obj |
| 15 | de | de | ADP | _ | 18 cord | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cord | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bed | punct |
| 18 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gun | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gun | compound |
| 21 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | conj |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 een | compound |
| 23 | yuther | yuther | X | _ | 24 een | compound |
| 24 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gun | appos |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 een | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Brer | case |
| 27 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 een | nmod |
| 28 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Brer | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanter | W'en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tuck | present | W'en | one een er and en gun | de bed cord | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent er=Theme |
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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