Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 18
Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enny swinkin', hit swunk too late fer ter he'p ole Brer B'ar.
Who acts: Ole, de headedness hisse'f · What happens: get, hit · To what, where: swunk
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 (Ole, de headedness hisse'f), 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 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ole | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hisse'f | amod |
| 8 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 headedness | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 swell | punct |
| 10 | headedness | headedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hisse'f | compound |
| 11 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ef | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ef | compound |
| 14 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 15 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 swinkin | amod |
| 16 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swinkin | compound |
| 17 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swinkin | compound |
| 18 | swinkin | swinkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ef | appos |
| 19 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 18 swinkin | punct |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | ccomp |
| 21 | swunk | swunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 late | advmod |
| 23 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 hit | advmod |
| 24 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 hit | xcomp |
| 25 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ole | compound |
| 26 | he'p | he'p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ole | compound |
| 27 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fer | obl |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ole | appos |
| 29 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brer | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ole | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hit | past | de headedness hisse'f | swunk | f, late property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swunk=Co-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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