Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 25
"One time when Brer Rabbit wuz gwine lopin' home fum a frolic w'at dey bin havin' up at Miss Meadows's, who should he happin up wid but ole Brer B'ar.
Who acts: Brer, w'at, Miss Meadows · What happens: fum up, havin, happin up · To what, where: Miss Meadows
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 (Brer, w'at, Miss Meadows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fum | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 fum | advmod |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | nsubj |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | compound |
| 8 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | appos |
| 9 | lopin | lopin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 home | punct |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lopin | conj |
| 12 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 havin | det |
| 14 | frolic | frolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 havin | amod |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 havin | nsubj |
| 16 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 havin | compound |
| 17 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 havin | compound |
| 18 | havin | havin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | obj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 havin | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 fum | compound:prt |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 Meadows | case |
| 22 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Meadows | compound |
| 23 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | obl |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Meadows | case |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 happin | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 happin | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 happin | aux |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 happin | nsubj |
| 29 | happin | happin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Meadows | acl:relcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 happin | compound:prt |
| 31 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 happin | xcomp |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 ole | cc |
| 33 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wid | conj |
| 34 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 wid | obl |
| 35 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Brer | flat |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fum up in a quote | infinitive | Brer | Miss Meadows | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | havin in a quote | w'at | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | happin up in a quote | should | Miss Meadows | wid 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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