Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 43
Ole Brer B'ar, he 'low dat he kin smell de honey.
Who acts: Ole · What happens: dat, kin · To what, where: smell
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), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dat | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dat | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dat | punct |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dat | amod |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ole | appos |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kin | nsubj |
| 10 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kin | obj |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 smell | flat:foreign |
| 13 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smell | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dat | Ole | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | kin | past | Ole | smell and honey | 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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