Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 40
Hit start holler at de bottom, en stay holler plum der de top, en de honey's des natchully oozin' out, en ef you'll drap yo' 'gagements en go longer me,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'you'll git a bait dat'll las' you en yo' fambly twel de middle er nex' mont',' sezee.
Who acts: you, en, gagements en, bait dat · What happens: hit, stay out, drap, go, say, git · To what, where: start holler, de bottom, holler plum, yo, Brer, middle er nex · 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 (you, en, gagements en, bait dat), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | compound |
| 3 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bottom | amod |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | parataxis |
| 10 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plum | compound |
| 11 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obj |
| 12 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 top | amod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 top | compound |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | conj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 des | advmod |
| 18 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 des | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 honey | case |
| 20 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oozin | compound |
| 21 | natchully | natchully | ADV | _ | 22 oozin | advmod |
| 22 | oozin | oozin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | nmod |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 oozin | punct |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stay | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ef | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ef | compound |
| 27 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 drap | nsubj |
| 29 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 drap | aux |
| 30 | drap | drap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ef | acl:relcl |
| 31 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drap | obj |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 drap | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 34 | gagements | gagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 en | compound |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 go | nsubj |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 drap | conj |
| 37 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 go | advmod |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 longer | iobj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sez | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 sez | punct |
| 41 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | conj |
| 42 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sez | obj |
| 43 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Brer | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sezee | punct |
| 45 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Brer | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 git | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 git | punct |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 git | nsubj |
| 49 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 git | aux |
| 50 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sez | obl |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 dat | det |
| 52 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 dat | compound |
| 53 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 twel | nsubj |
| 54 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 twel | aux |
| 55 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 twel | nsubj |
| 56 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 55 las | case |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 62 twel | nsubj |
| 58 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 yo | compound |
| 59 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 twel | nsubj |
| 60 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 62 twel | punct |
| 61 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 62 twel | advmod |
| 62 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 git | acl:relcl |
| 63 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 64 middle | advmod |
| 64 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 nex | amod |
| 65 | er | er | X | _ | 66 nex | compound |
| 66 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 twel | nmod |
| 67 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 68 mont | punct |
| 68 | mont | mont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 nex | conj |
| 69 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 68 mont | punct |
| 70 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 68 mont | case |
| 71 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 nex | conj |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | start holler | de bottom | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent holler=Theme at bottom=Destination | |||
| 2 | stay out | present | en | holler plum | der de top and en des oozin obl; en ef obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme plum=Location | |||
| 3 | drap | future | you | yo | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | gagements en | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | you not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 6 | git | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | twel | future | a bait dat | middle er nex and mont and sezee | fambly 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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