Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 6
"Ole M'er Jackson, fines' confraction, fell down sta'rs fer to git satisfaction; big Bill Fray, he rule de day, eve'ything he call fer come one, two by three.
Who acts: Ole M'er, boy · What happens: fall down, rule, call, come · To what, where: sta'rs fer, eve'ything, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 M'er, boy), 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 M'er | punct |
| 2 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 M'er | amod |
| 3 | M'er | M'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | Jackson | Jackson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 M'er | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 confraction | punct |
| 6 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 confraction | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 fines | case |
| 8 | confraction | confraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 M'er | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 M'er | punct |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 fell | compound:prt |
| 12 | sta'rs | sta'r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fer | compound |
| 13 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 satisfaction | case |
| 15 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 satisfaction | compound |
| 16 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fer | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bill | punct |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Bill | amod |
| 19 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 20 | Fray | Fray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bill | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rule | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rule | nsubj |
| 23 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bill | appos |
| 24 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rule | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eve'ything | punct |
| 27 | eve'ything | eve'ything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bill | appos |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 call | nsubj |
| 29 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 27 eve'ything | acl:relcl |
| 30 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 call | xcomp |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fer | xcomp |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 come | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 two | punct |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 one | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 three | case |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 one | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down in a quote | past | Ole M'er and fines's confraction | sta'rs fer to git satisfaction | big Bill obl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule in a quote | boy | day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | boy | eve'ything not said here | f property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eve'ything=Recipient | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | boy not said here | one | by three | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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