Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 28
Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.
Who acts: den, Brer · What happens: take, not be · To what, where: Den
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 (den, Brer), 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bof | bof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 han | amod |
| 5 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 han | case |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gin | compound |
| 8 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pull | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pull | amod |
| 11 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 same | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 same | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 same | punct |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 same | advmod |
| 16 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 budge | punct |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 budge | nsubj |
| 20 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Brer | flat |
| 21 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 budge | cop |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 budge | advmod |
| 23 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | den | Den | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gin=Theme pull=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Brer | budge 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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