Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 30
Brer Fox, he in fer dem kinder pranks, en 'twa'n't no time 'fo' Brer Rabbit had ole Brer Fox harness up dar in his place, en den he make like he got ter make 'as'e en git de pills fer dem sick chilluns.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit, Fox, ter · What happens: have up, make, get · To what, where: ole Brer Fox harness, en den, de pills
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Rabbit, Fox, ter), 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 | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 time | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dem | case |
| 6 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 dem | amod |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he | nmod |
| 8 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 pranks | amod |
| 9 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dem | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pranks | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 13 | twa' | twa' | INTJ | _ | 16 time | discourse |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 time | advmod |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 18 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 had | mark |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rabbit | compound |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | advcl |
| 23 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 harness | amod |
| 24 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 harness | compound |
| 25 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 harness | compound |
| 26 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 had | compound:prt |
| 28 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dar | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 den | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 den | compound |
| 34 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 place | appos |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 make | nsubj |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 34 den | acl:relcl |
| 37 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 39 got | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 got | nsubj |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 make | ccomp |
| 40 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 make | nsubj |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 got | ccomp |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 pills | punct |
| 43 | as'e | as'e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 en | compound |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 git | compound |
| 45 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 de | compound |
| 46 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pills | compound |
| 47 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 make | obj |
| 48 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 51 chilluns | amod |
| 49 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 chilluns | compound |
| 50 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 chilluns | amod |
| 51 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 pills | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have up | past | Brer Rabbit | ole Brer Fox harness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Fox | en den not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | present | ter | de pills fer dem sick chilluns | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pill=Product |
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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