Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 17
"W'en I see deze yer swell-head folks like dat 'oman w'at come en tell yo' ma 'bout you chunkin' at her chilluns, w'ich yo' ma make Mars John strop you, hit make my mine run back to ole Brer B'ar.
Who acts: en, chilluns · What happens: see, come, tell, make, strop, hit · To what, where: W'en, yo ma, Mars John, en · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, chilluns), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 folks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 swell | punct |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 folks | compound |
| 10 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 dat | case |
| 12 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 folks | nmod |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 w'at | punct |
| 14 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | compound |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dat | conj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | parataxis |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | parataxis |
| 19 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ma | compound |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 ma | punct |
| 21 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | iobj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 ma | punct |
| 23 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 25 chunkin | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 chunkin | nsubj |
| 25 | chunkin | chunkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obl |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 chunkin | punct |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 chilluns | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 29 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 make | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 yo | punct |
| 31 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 yo | compound |
| 32 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chilluns | conj |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 ma | punct |
| 34 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 yo | appos |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 36 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 John | compound |
| 37 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obj |
| 38 | strop | strop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 strop | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hit | punct |
| 41 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | advcl |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 hit | xcomp |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mine | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 make | obj |
| 45 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 make | xcomp |
| 46 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 run | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Brer | case |
| 48 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Brer | amod |
| 49 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 run | obl:agent |
| 50 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Brer | flat |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | en | W'en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | en | yo ma | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ma=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | hanspike's chilluns and w'ich yo | Mars John | bout chunkin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset john=Product | |||
| 5 | strop in a quote | present | hanspike's chilluns and w'ich yo not said here | yo ma = ma | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hit in a quote | past | hanspike's chilluns and w'ich yo not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | hanspike's chilluns and w'ich yo not said here | en | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | run back in a quote | infinitive | en not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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