Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 26
Co'se, atter w'at done pass 'twix um dey wa'n't no good feelin's 'tween Brer Rabbit en ole Brer B'ar, but Brer Rabbit, he wanter save his manners, en so he holler out:
Who acts: Brer · What happens: do, save out, holler · To what, where: manners
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), 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 | Co'se | co'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 w'at | punct |
| 3 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'at | compound |
| 4 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Co'se | conj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pass | amod |
| 6 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dey | punct |
| 8 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 um | compound |
| 9 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | compound |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | appos |
| 11 | wa' | wa' | INTJ | _ | 10 dey | discourse |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 feelin | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 feelin | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feelin | amod |
| 15 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wa' | conj |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 feelin | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 tween | punct |
| 18 | tween | tween | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 feelin | appos |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ole | compound |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Brer | flat |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ole | compound |
| 22 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tween | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rabbit | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 Rabbit | cc |
| 27 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rabbit | compound |
| 28 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 save | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 save | nsubj |
| 31 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 save | nsubj |
| 32 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Brer | acl:relcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 manners | nmod:poss |
| 34 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 save | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 en | punct |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 manners | conj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 holler | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 holler | nsubj |
| 39 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 save | obl |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 save | compound:prt |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | save out | past | Brer | Brer's manners and en | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Theme | ||||
| 3 | holler speech: other | Brer | 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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