Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 44
Brer Rabbit, he 'low dat he kin see de honey-koam.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: dat, kin, see · To what, where: low dat, de
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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dat | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dat | amod |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kin | nsubj |
| 9 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kin | xcomp |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 see | obl |
| 12 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 koam | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 honey | punct |
| 14 | koam | koam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dat | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | kin | past | Brer | low dat not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Brer not said here | de | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer koam=Stimulus |
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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