Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 23

Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog XXV.

Who acts: Mr. Bear · What happens: catch · To what, where: Old Frog XXV

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Bear), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bear	compound
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catches	nsubj
3	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 XXV	amod
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Frog	compound
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Frog	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Bull	punct
8	Frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 XXV	compound
9	XXV	xxv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catches	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Mr. Bear	Old Frog XXV					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent xxv=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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