Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 50
En de bees dey swawm'd on Brer B'ar's head, twel 'fo' he could take it out'n de hole hit wuz done swell up bigger dan dat dinner-pot, en dar he swung, en ole Brer Rabbit, he dance 'roun' en sing:
Who acts: B'ar, hole · What happens: ', take, hit, do, swell up, swing · To what, where: dey swawm, head, wuz, bigger dan, en dar
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 (B'ar, hole), 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bees | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 En | flat:foreign |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swawm | nsubj |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swawm | compound |
| 5 | swawm | swawm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 swawm | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 B'ar | compound |
| 9 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 B'ar | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 'd | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twel | punct |
| 13 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swawm | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 fo | punct |
| 15 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 19 take | mark |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 fo | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 twel | appos |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | out'n | out'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 hit | dep |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 out'n | flat |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hit | nsubj |
| 24 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | parataxis |
| 25 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hit | obj |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hit | xcomp |
| 27 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 swell | compound:prt |
| 29 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 dan | amod |
| 30 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swell | obj |
| 31 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pot | amod |
| 32 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pot | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 dinner | punct |
| 34 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dan | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dar | punct |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dar | compound |
| 37 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pot | appos |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 swung | nsubj |
| 39 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dar | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ole | punct |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ole | compound |
| 42 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dan | conj |
| 43 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Rabbit | compound |
| 44 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 ole | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 roun | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 roun | nsubj |
| 47 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 roun | compound |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 roun | punct |
| 49 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swawm | conj |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 roun | punct |
| 51 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 sing | amod |
| 52 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 roun | conj |
| 53 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 swawm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | participle | dey swawm and twel and dance roun and en sing not said here | Brer B'ar's head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | could | B'ar | head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | hole | wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | hole not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | swell up | infinitive | hole not said here | bigger dan and dat dinner pot and en ole | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dan=Extent | ||||
| 6 | swing | past | B'ar | en dar not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=Theme | ||||
| 7 | roun | B'ar | 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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