Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 35
"'Hit's mighty big luck,' sezee, 'ef w'en I ketch de chap w'at nibble my greens, likewise I ketch de feller w'at gnyaw my goose,' sezee, en wid dat he let inter Brer Fox wid de hick'ries, en de way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood.
Who acts: En mo'n dat, mighty big luck, goose, en · What happens: ketch, nibble, gnyaw, let, play · To what, where: greens, goose, inter wid hick'ries, jacket wuz
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 (En mo'n dat, mighty big luck, goose, en), 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 | _ | 20 nibble | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 luck | punct |
| 3 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 luck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Hit | case |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 luck | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 luck | amod |
| 7 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nibble | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 luck | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ketch | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 w'en | punct |
| 13 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 w'en | compound |
| 14 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ketch | compound |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ketch | nsubj |
| 16 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 luck | conj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 ketch | flat:foreign |
| 18 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 w'at | compound |
| 19 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ketch | conj |
| 20 | nibble | nibble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 greens | nmod:poss |
| 22 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 nibble | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ketch | punct |
| 24 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 26 ketch | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ketch | nsubj |
| 26 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nibble | conj |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 ketch | flat:foreign |
| 28 | feller | fell | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 w'at | amod |
| 29 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ketch | conj |
| 30 | gnyaw | gnyaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nibble | conj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 goose | nmod:poss |
| 32 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gnyaw | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sezee | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 sezee | punct |
| 35 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nibble | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dat | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wid | compound |
| 38 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dat | compound |
| 39 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sezee | appos |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 let | nsubj |
| 41 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 dat | acl:relcl |
| 42 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 hick'ries | amod |
| 43 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 wid | compound |
| 44 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wid | compound |
| 45 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hick'ries | compound |
| 46 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 45 wid | flat:foreign |
| 47 | hick'ries | hick'ry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 let | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 en | punct |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hick'ries | conj |
| 50 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 51 way | compound |
| 51 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 en | nmod:unmarked |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 play | nsubj |
| 53 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 51 way | acl:relcl |
| 54 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 jacket | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 rap | punct |
| 56 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 wuz | compound |
| 57 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 play | obj |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 ter | det |
| 59 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 ter | compound |
| 60 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hick'ries | appos |
| 61 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 62 naberhood | compound |
| 62 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 ter | conj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 nibble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ketch in a quote | En mo'n dat = dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | nibble in a quote | infinitive | Hit's mighty big luck and sezee and w'en ketch and chap w'at | my greens | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ketch in a quote | En mo'n dat = dat | likewise property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gnyaw in a quote | infinitive | Hit's mighty big luck and sezee and w'en ketch and chap w'at not said here | my goose | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | past | goose | inter wid hick'ries and en de way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hick'ry=Theme | ||||
| 6 | play in a quote | present | en | jacket wuz | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuz=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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