Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 35
So den Brer Rabbit, he ax him howdy, he did, en Brer B'ar, he 'spon' dat he wuz mighty po'ly, en dey amble 'long, dey did, sorter familious like, but Brer Rabbit, he keep one eye on Brer B'ar, en Brer B'ar, he study how he gwine nab Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: den, dey · What happens: ax, do, dat, wuz, keep, study · To what, where: Brer, en, mighty po'ly, sorter, Brer Rabbit
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 (den, dey), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 ax | advmod |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ax | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 den | appos |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 den | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ax | nsubj |
| 7 | ax | ax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ax | obj |
| 9 | howdy | howdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ax | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ax | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 en | appos |
| 16 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dat | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dat | nsubj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 spon | punct |
| 20 | spon | spon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dat | compound |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 spon | punct |
| 22 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wuz | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wuz | nsubj |
| 24 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ax | parataxis |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 po'ly | amod |
| 26 | po'ly | po'ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wuz | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 amble | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 amble | compound |
| 29 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 amble | compound |
| 30 | amble | amble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 po'ly | appos |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 amble | punct |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wuz | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 did | punct |
| 34 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 did | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wuz | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sorter | punct |
| 37 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 did | obj |
| 38 | familious | familious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sorter | amod |
| 39 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 37 sorter | discourse |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 keep | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 keep | cc |
| 42 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Rabbit | compound |
| 43 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 keep | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 keep | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 keep | nsubj |
| 46 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 24 wuz | conj |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 eye | nummod |
| 48 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 keep | obj |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 Brer | case |
| 50 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 keep | obl |
| 51 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Brer | flat |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 en | punct |
| 53 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Brer | appos |
| 54 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 en | appos |
| 55 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Brer | flat |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 study | punct |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 study | nsubj |
| 58 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 keep | advcl |
| 59 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 62 nab | advmod |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 nab | nsubj |
| 61 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 nab | nsubj |
| 62 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 study | ccomp |
| 63 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 Rabbit | compound |
| 64 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 nab | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ax | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ax | infinitive | den | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | den | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dat | den | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wuz | present | den | mighty po'ly | long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | past | dey | sorter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | keep | present | den | Brer Rabbit | Brer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on brer=Location | |||
| 7 | study | present | den | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | nab | infinitive | den | Brer Rabbit | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient |
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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