Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 41
"Brer Rabbit, he sot down sorter keerless like, en begin fer ter scratch one year like a man studyin' 'bout sump'n.
Who acts: Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, fer ter · What happens: sot down, begin, scratch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, fer 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 begin | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sot | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sot | nsubj |
| 6 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | appos |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sot | compound:prt |
| 8 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sot | conj |
| 9 | keerless | keerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sot | conj |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 sot | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | conj |
| 13 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 ter | amod |
| 15 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scratch | nsubj |
| 16 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 begin | ccomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 year | nummod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scratch | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 studyin | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 studyin | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 studyin | compound |
| 22 | studyin | studyin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scratch | obl |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 studyin | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 studyin | punct |
| 25 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sump'n | compound |
| 26 | sump'n | sump'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 studyin | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sot down in a quote | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit and en | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | scratch in a quote | present | fer ter | year | like a man studyin and bout sump'n | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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