Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 31
Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han'ful er hick'ries, but w'en he see Brer Fox tied up dar, he look like he 'stonished.
Who acts: yer, Man, w'en, dar · What happens: not mo'n out, come, wi, see, tie up, look · To what, where: Brer, han'ful er hick'ries, w'en, dar
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 (yer, Man, w'en, dar), 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 | 5 mo'n | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | wa' | wa' | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mo'n | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mo'n | advmod |
| 5 | mo'n | mo'n | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 mo'n | compound:prt |
| 7 | er | er | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mo'n | obl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 10 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 come | mark |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 12 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mo'n | advcl |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Man | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wid | nsubj |
| 16 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hick'ries | det |
| 18 | han'ful | han'ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hick'ries | amod |
| 19 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hick'ries | compound |
| 20 | hick'ries | hick'ry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wid | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tied | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 tied | cc |
| 23 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tied | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tied | nsubj |
| 27 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mo'n | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tied | compound:prt |
| 30 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tied | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 look | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 look | nsubj |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mo'n | parataxis |
| 34 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 37 stonished | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stonished | nsubj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 stonished | punct |
| 37 | stonished | stonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 look | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mo'n | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mo'n out | present · passive | Brer | er sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | yer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wi | past | Man Mr. | a han'ful er hick'ries | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | w'en | w'en not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'en=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tie up | past | w'en | dar | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Patient | ||||
| 6 | look | present | dar | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | stonish | past | dar | 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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