Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 48
"Ole Brer B'ar, he spit on his han's en skint up de tree, en jam his head in de hole, en sho nuff, Brer Rabbit, he grab de pine pole, en de way he stir up dem bees wuz sinful--dat's w'at it wuz.
Who acts: Ole, de tree, dem bees, head · What happens: spit, skint up, jam, grab, stir up, wuz · To what, where: en, head, de hole, de pine pole
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, de tree, dem bees, head), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ole | punct |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 skint | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | flat |
| 4 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spit | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spit | nsubj |
| 7 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 en | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 han | nmod:poss |
| 10 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 han | case |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spit | nmod |
| 13 | skint | skint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 skint | compound:prt |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jam | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | conj |
| 19 | jam | jam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 skint | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jam | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hole | case |
| 23 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hole | amod |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jam | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 en | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hole | conj |
| 27 | sho | sho | X | _ | 28 nuff | compound |
| 28 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 en | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Rabbit | punct |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Rabbit | compound |
| 31 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 nuff | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grab | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 grab | nsubj |
| 34 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 jam | parataxis |
| 35 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 pole | amod |
| 36 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pole | compound |
| 37 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grab | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 en | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pole | conj |
| 40 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 way | compound |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grab | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stir | nsubj |
| 43 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 grab | conj |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 stir | compound:prt |
| 45 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bees | compound |
| 46 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 wuz | nsubj |
| 47 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 stir | advcl |
| 48 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 wuz | xcomp |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 w'at | punct |
| 50 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 51 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 50 dat | case |
| 52 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 wuz | compound |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 wuz | nsubj |
| 54 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stir | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 skint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit in a quote | Ole | Ole's han's en | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skint up in a quote | past | Ole | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | jam in a quote | present | de tree and en | Ole's head | de hole and en and sho nuff | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hole=Destination | |||
| 4 | grab in a quote | present | Ole | de pine pole and en | de way obl:unmarked | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | |||
| 5 | stir up in a quote | infinitive | Ole | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 6 | wuz in a quote | present | dem bees | sinful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wuz in a quote | head | 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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