Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 30
Den Brer Wolf he put in en holp Brer B'ar pull, but des like he didn't, en den dey all holp 'im, en, bless grashus! w'iles dey wuz all a pullin', Brer Tarrypin, he holler, en ax um w'y dey don't take up de slack.
Who acts: Den, Brer, holp w'iles, um w'y dey · What happens: put, pull, not do, wuz, holler, not take up · To what, where: des, en holp, en den dey, de slack
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, holp w'iles, um w'y dey), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 holp | case |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holp | compound |
| 8 | holp | holp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 10 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 holp | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 des | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 des | cc |
| 14 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 15 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | advcl |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 did | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dey | punct |
| 20 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dey | amod |
| 21 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dey | compound |
| 22 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 holp | det |
| 24 | holp | holp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 w'iles | compound |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 im | punct |
| 26 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 holp | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 im | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grashus | punct |
| 30 | bless | bless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grashus | amod |
| 31 | grashus | grashus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 holp | appos |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 grashus | punct |
| 33 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wuz | nsubj |
| 34 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wuz | compound |
| 35 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dey | acl:relcl |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 pullin | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pullin | det |
| 38 | pullin | pullin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wuz | conj |
| 39 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 38 pullin | dep |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 pullin | appos |
| 41 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Brer | flat |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 holler | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 holler | nsubj |
| 44 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Brer | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 en | punct |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wuz | conj |
| 47 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 um | compound |
| 48 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 dey | compound |
| 49 | w'y | w'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 dey | compound |
| 50 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 take | nsubj |
| 51 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 take | aux |
| 52 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 take | advmod |
| 53 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 en | acl:relcl |
| 54 | up | up | ADP | _ | 53 take | compound:prt |
| 55 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 slack | compound |
| 56 | slack | slack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 take | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Den | des | en holp | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in holp=Destination | |||
| 2 | pull | present | Brer | en holp not said here | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | den | en den dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wuz | holp w'iles | en den dey not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | holler speech: other | den | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not take up | present · do-support | um w'y dey | de slack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slack=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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