Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 51
"Tree stan' high, but honey mighty sweet-- Watch dem bees wid stingers on der feet.'
Who acts: honey · What happens: watch · To what, where: dem bees
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 (honey), 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 | _ | 3 stan | punct |
| 2 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stan | compound |
| 3 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 high | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stan | punct |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Watch | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Watch | cc |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Watch | nsubj |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweet | amod |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 honey | amod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Watch | punct |
| 12 | Watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 high | parataxis |
| 13 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bees | compound |
| 14 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Watch | obj |
| 15 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stingers | amod |
| 16 | stingers | stinger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bees | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feet | compound |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stingers | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | infinitive | honey | dem bees and wid stingers on der feet | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme |
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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